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Originally Posted by davidtan
John and Husky, you may have made a mistake. I'm not sure about the tool that compares household income, but the tool that compares annual income actually took data from IRAS and only included people who earned more than 20k pa. If the tool says you're "higher than 45.8%", you are only higher than 45.8% in that group. If you include all those who earned below 20k and all those who did not even file income tax, the figure will be more than 45.8%, which means much lesser than 50% households (as you claimed) earn more than 8k. I suspect at 8k, the husband and wife may stand at around 70-80% of all people in Singapore.
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I remember reading somewhere that a majority of the working population do not pay taxes, so yes, 70-80% may be a good estimate. I hope to see official figures though.