Solly Moeng (Supplied)
The difference between salary earners in South Africa and their counterparts in more developed countries is that citizens in the latter countries can see where their tax money is going, says Solly Moeng.
A friend of mine, we shall call her Fatine, a single mother, shared her payslip with me the other day and, since seeing hers, I have seen a few other salary calculations in a number of social media discussions.
At the core of what Fatine told me, a concern shared by increasing numbers of other South Africans out there, is the difference between the gross salary payment and net salary, popularly referred to as the take-home pay. More specifically, it is the nature of deductions and the percentage of them that end up in government coffers through all forms of taxes, starting with Pay As You Earn (PAYE).