Taxpayers versus grant recipients in South Africa, 2017/18 to 2025/26
The number of registered taxpayers in South Africa with income over the taxable threshold and the number with income of R750,000 and above as well as the number of grant beneficiaries by financial year since 2017/18. The data is sourced from the National Treasury's annual Budget Review documents.
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The data
10 rows, 4 columns.
- financial_year Category
- Financial year of the data 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27
- individuals_R750k_plus_a_year Number
- 483518 – 1068962
- all_taxpayers Number
- Total number of taxpayers in South Africa per year 6960267 – 8337861
- grant_beneficiaries Number
- Number of social grant beneficiaries in South Africa per year 17237000 – 27782000
First rows
| financial_year | individuals_R750k_plus_a_year | all_taxpayers | grant_beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 483518 | 7411042 | 17237000 |
| 2018/19 | 504449 | 7487392 | 17616000 |
| 2019/20 | 544250 | 7643157 | 17996000 |
| 2020/21 | 574081 | 7146434 | 24403252 |
| 2021/22 | 534962 | 6960267 | 27132594 |
| 2022/23 | 608030 | 7445393 | 26604000 |
| 2023/24 | 762551 | 7122113 | 27782000 |
| 2024/25 | 861992 | 7409406 | 27108000 |
| 2025/26 | 978140 | 7888615 | 26254000 |
| 2026/27 | 1068962 | 8337861 | 26498000 |
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