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This might be a very obvious question but if for example I have a wage of £23000 after paying tax at 25%, what is the gross pay? I thought that if I did 25%x = 23000, then x would equal 23000/0.25 but that give a ludicrous figure of 92000. So obviously that isn't correct. What is the correct method?

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Brian

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BabyMaths

Original post by meddyliol

This might be a very obvious question but if for example I have a wage of £23000 after paying tax at 25%, what is the gross pay? I thought that if I did 25%x = 23000, then x would equal 23000/0.25 but that give a ludicrous figure of 92000. So obviously that isn't correct. What is the correct method?

Thanks

Brian

23000 = 75% of gross pay.

Solve that equation. :smile:

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TenOfThem

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Original post by meddyliol

This might be a very obvious question but if for example I have a wage of £23000 after paying tax at 25%, what is the gross pay? I thought that if I did 25%x = 23000, then x would equal 23000/0.25 but that give a ludicrous figure of 92000. So obviously that isn't correct. What is the correct method?

Thanks

Brian

Think about how the wage was worked out

0.75 x (pre-tax wage) = 23000

Does that help?

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davros

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Original post by meddyliol

This might be a very obvious question but if for example I have a wage of £23000 after paying tax at 25%, what is the gross pay? I thought that if I did 25%x = 23000, then x would equal 23000/0.25 but that give a ludicrous figure of 92000. So obviously that isn't correct. What is the correct method?

Thanks

Brian

I presume this is a completely made-up example, since this isn't the way that taxation works in practice?

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