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For official information on how the tax-take is spent, the following is sourced from the 2005 Budget presented to Parliament in May 2005. It is available online at the official Treasury website from where all the following has been sourced.

The category covers Vote Defence, Vote Defence Forces, Vote Security Intelligence Service, and Vote Communications Security and Intelligence.

The defence spending has been split into a number of categories, so you can easily see where the money is going.

Actual 2000/01	Actual 2001/02	Actual 2002/03	Actual 2003/04	Actual 2004/05		Budget 2005/06
NZ$ million	NZ$ million	NZ$ million	NZ$ million	NZ$ million	Issue	NZ$ million	%
233.0	55.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	Air combat forces	0.0	0.0
106.3	0.4	1.8	291.3	25.0	Capital Investment	0.0	0.0
48.0	53.0	37.2	58.2	29.2	Operationally deployed forces	0.0	0.0
2.1	2.0	2.0	1.8	1.8	Performance audit and assesment	1.8	0.1
8.8	8.2	7.9	7.9	7.9	Hydrographic data collection	6.5	0.3
11.4	12.1	8.3	8.2	7.4	Miscellaneous support activites	7.3	0.3
15.0	11.7	12.5	13.7	14.5	Policy advice	13.2	0.6
11.5	13.5	16.5	17.2	20.3	Security Intelligence	21.1	1.0
42.2	42.0	33.4	34.4	30.7	Mine counter measures & diving	32.4	1.5
44.7	40.0	36.4	30.2	29.9	Naval support services	34.9	1.7
20.1	23.2	29.2	29.9	35.2	Security & Intelligence communications	35.8	1.7
35.1	37.9	36.4	43.4	40.4	Specialised support services	42.3	2.0
83.3	102.2	80.2	78.9	96.2	Rotary wing transport forces	99.2	4.7
113.7	126.3	142.0	161.6	134.6	Maritime patrol forces	139.5	6.6
151.7	170.5	199.4	221.3	164.8	Fixed wing transport services	171.5	8.1
222.5	237.6	229.8	233.3	242.4	Land combat forces	261.4	12.4
216.8	226.5	270.2	276.4	248.8	Land combat support services	261.9	12.4
387.4	217.5	454.2	385.1	377.1	Defence equipment	446.7	21.2
443.5	480.2	520.9	559.0	498.9	Naval combat forces	530.1	25.2
--------------	--------------	--------------	--------------	--------------	--------------------------------------	--------------	---------
2,197.1	1,860.6	2,118.2	2,451.9	2,004.9	Total Spending	2,105.5	100.0

Sources:

Defence Department: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget2005/estimates/est05defen.pdf
Defence Forces: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget2005/estimates/est05deffor.pdf
Security Intelligence: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget2005/estimates/est05secint.pdf
Communications Security: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget2005/estimates/est05comsec.pdf