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Tax is complicated, and we don’t even have lunatic tariffs to worry about.

Often people talk about the fact we pay up to 45% tax in South Africa, but that is seldom true; in fact, mathematically it will never be true because tax is something called an asymptote. Even if you round up, you have to earn over R32.1 million a month, to get to 45% - something no-one (or very few people) will get close to.

I wanted to see and play with this, so I built taxreality.sadev.co.za this evening to play with the formula and visualise it.

screenshot of my little tool

Like with my last project, it is built with Deno, Fresh and Deploy. In addition, I also made use of System.css for some of the styling and RealFaviconGenerator which is an amazing tool; it let me use a SVG and have it change to work with light and dark mode!