Number of non-government taxpayers in SA

While South Africa has approximately 5.5 million taxpayers above the tax  free threshold, over a million of those are government employees. The latest available data show that the roughly 200 000 taxpayers who earn over  R1 million per year pay about 45% of the total personal income tax take, with almost 40 000 of those taxpayers working for government.

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