There is a big difference between the number of registered taxpayers, the number of active taxpayers and the number of registered taxpayers that are above the tax-free threshold. In today’s post we provide revised estimates of taxpayer numbers in South Africa.
While South Africa is estimated to have just over 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 80 000 taxpayers who earn over R2 million per year pay about 30% of the total personal income tax take.
