Total tax paid
40,587 FCFA
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 20,658 FCFA to pay you 127,519 FCFA. In other words, every time you spend 10 FCFA of your hard-earned money, 3.18 FCFA goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 15.6% tax rate now rises to 27.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 11.8% higher than what it seemed at first.