Total tax paid
₦23,277
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₦8,777 to pay you ₦73,143. In other words, every time you spend ₦10 of your hard-earned money, ₦3.18 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
28.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 19.8% tax rate now rises to 28.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 8.6% higher than what it seemed at first.