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The tax calculation challenge
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People seems to be more interested in answering the question than the code that solved it. Actually, people seemed to be more interested in outdoing one another in creating answers to that. What I found most interesting is that a large percentage of the answers (both in the blog post and in the interviews) got a lot of that wrong.
So here is the question in full. The following table is the current tax rates in Israel:
| Tax Rate | |
| Up to 5,070 | 10% |
| 5,071 up to 8,660 | 14% |
| 8,661 up to 14,070 | 23% |
| 14,071 up to 21,240 | 30% |
| 21,241 up to 40,230 | 33% |
| Higher than 40,230 | 45% |
Here are some example answers:
- 5,000 –> 500
- 5,800 –> 609.2
- 9,000 –> 1087.8
- 15,000 –> 2532.9
- 50,000 –> 15,068.1
This problem is a bit tricky because the tax rate doesn’t apply to the whole sum, only to the part that is within the current rate.
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