Lisa

House Head🎶 (I❤️🏠🎵)

[Joshua 🧣🍁🖤 @Joshwins_all]

concerts are where you realise how beautiful it is to be alive in this world.

[WAYNE @waynehelmes]

Uzozwa ngathi uyasha🙇🏿‍♂️🔥🚶🏿‍♂️

[Tshepo @tshepo_m03]

Happy Thursday

Track ID: Michael Gray ft Tatiana Owens- Ivy(Jimpster extended remix)

On The Decks: Vinny Da Vinci

[7 Hertz @7hzXperience]

Track ID: Mr Shane SA - Ghetto Groove 2.0 🔥🙌🏾

On the decks: Judy Jay

Video credits: Rands Cape Town (YouTube)

[B. @Nerdy_But_Flyy]

*me trying to locate my cursor across all my work screens*

[Procurement_Scarcity @Scarcity_20]

Afternoon ☘️
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🎵 Alison Crockett - Crossraods (DJ Spinna Remix)

[Rethabile @ELPunchoo]

@AVMedia_za The judges before they laughed:

[Bahluphile @Makhathini_LJ]

Griffith Malo feat. Sbani The Vocalist - UNITE

[Jos 🇿🇦👨🏿‍💻 🚗 @JosiahThobejane]

Party manifestos can be tiring to read through, this search tool looks through dozen local election manifestos for you using a simple keyword search and gives a AI Summary if you need 🤗

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[safadenha @ousafadenha]

A gente se vê depois do trabalho?

Eu depois do trabalho:

[Khangisa (Prof. ) @Siyakhangisa]

48%.

That is the effective tax burden on someone earning R30,000 a month in South Africa. Same rate as someone earning R432,000 a month in a top European country.

The numbers sound wrong. They are not.

​​Where the 48% comes from.​​

PAYE is what people see on the payslip. It is not the whole picture.

VAT - 15% on almost everything. Every swipe. Every fill-up. Most people do not think of VAT as a tax. It is the largest single source of government revenue after income tax.

Fuel levy - built into every litre. Petrol at R26.92 inland includes roughly R3.80 in fuel levy and Road Accident Fund levy. That is a tax on getting to work.

Then there are the charges that look like fees but function like taxes. E-tolls. Municipal surcharges. Electricity tariffs with embedded levies.

Add the visible and the invisible - you get 48%.

​​The key difference with Europe.​​

In the Netherlands. In Denmark. In Germany. High taxes come with a social contract.

Free tertiary education. Universal healthcare that does not require medical aid. Childcare subsidies. Paid parental leave that covers an actual year. Robust unemployment support.

You pay 45%. And you get services back.

In South Africa you pay 48%. And then you pay again - privately.

Medical aid because public healthcare is collapsed. Security because policing is broken. Private schools because public education cannot be trusted. Solar panels or a generator because Eskom cannot guarantee power. Water tanks because the municipality cannot guarantee supply.

The middle-class earner pays twice. Once in tax. Once in escape.

​​Who actually pays.​​

There are about 8.3 million personal income taxpayers in South Africa. A relatively small slice of the population. The top earners supply most of the revenue.

Corporations optimise. The wealthy structure. Offshore trusts. Semigration. Emigration. The R30,000 earner cannot escape - it comes out before they see the money.

The base is narrow. The burden is concentrated. The services are not.

​​Why it accumulated this way.​​

No one designed this system. It grew.

Income tax funds the general budget. VAT funds the general budget. Fuel levy funds roads and the general budget. Each mechanism made sense when it was introduced. Each one expanded quietly.

Raising income tax visibly upsets people. Raising VAT is less visible - it is embedded in the price. Raising fuel levy is buried in the pump price. Municipal charges are non-negotiable.

The objective was not fairness to the middle class. It was revenue extraction with minimum political friction.

​​The uncomfortable part.​​

This is not a policy failure. It is a policy success. The system extracts efficiently. It offends quietly. And the people who carry it do not have the means to opt out.

The question is not whether 48% is too high.

It is how long the R30,000 earner can pay twice - once in tax and once in escape - before something breaks.

[🅾️la’s Jacqueline🎀 @jacque86565]

White genocide but the names on the crosses are of black people, you can’t make this up😭😭😂😂

[ْ @tronzyjr]

i'm so loyal to music i'll hunt down a song i used to love 6 years back

[Gustavo. @LordVizo__]

Everything costs more than R100 😭.

You’ll take a packet of Lays, a chocolate and a small drink, Total: R131 😭

No ways.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Zulu Women, Natal, South Africa, c 1930. Credit: Credit: A. M. Duggan-Cronin/McGregor Museum

[Employee Tears @EmployeeTears]

Wait, before email existed… did people just leave work and nobody could contact them until the next day?

[Lesedi Zwelibanzi Ngema @LesediNgema]

Untitled Basement is the best curated live music venue.

Clean job, all the time.

[Afika N @Fikaflexi]

“Download this app”
“Lookout for this car”
“If you see this”

I know we are trying to help but mna I’m overwhelmed bethuna. How many cars are we going to memorise and how many apps will we download???

[Thendo Muloiwa @MuloiwaThendo]

City of Ekurhuleni has spent R23 Billion on hiring toilets for communities in the last 15 years. I can't imagine how many toilets government could have built with that kind of money.
R60 Million per month guys. 😔😔😔😔