Total tax paid
₦14,346
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₦5,681 to pay you ₦47,344. In other words, every time you spend ₦10 of your hard-earned money, ₦3.03 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.1%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 18.3% tax rate now rises to 27.1%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 8.8% higher than what it seemed at first.