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 has approximately 5.2 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 around 40 000 of those taxpayers working for government.
