Simple program Query

Finding it hard to get started on a query I have been given which is about calculating an employees tax.

There are two types of employees, standard and self-employed. The following detials apply

Tax Rates:

Standard PAYE Employee
20% tax free, 20% @ 15% and the rest at 30%

Self-employed PAYE Employee
40% tax free, 20% on the rest

I need to have:
An Employee class
CalculateTax Method makes use of appropriate calculation
Create a Government class which has an array of employees
Extend user so it has a boolean (selfEmployed)
Iterate through array and calculate total tax from self employed and total
tax from standard



any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
CJ

 

Re: Please Help! - A Simple program Query problem??

Ok im trying to put the pieces together. If anyone can lend any sort of help it would be much appreciated. what i have so far is. Ive got 5 different class and im not sure how to join them?

I need to be able to get an employee from the array.
Check whether or not they are self-employed (using a Boolean).
Then apply the appropriate calculation to work out the tax on their pay.
And then display the answer.

Code:

public class Government extends Employee {

	public Government(String name, int pay, boolean selfemployed){
		super(name,pay,selfemployed);
	}
	boolean selfemployed = true;
	
	public static void main (String [] args)
	{
		
		Employee[] staff = new Employee[4];
		
		staff[0] = new Employee("person1",15000, true);
		staff[1] = new Employee("person2",20000, false);
		staff[2] = new Employee("person3",25000, true);
		staff[3] = new Employee("person4",30000, false);
      }

}


public class CalculateTax{
	
	public static void main (String [] args){
		
	double standardTax;
	double selfEmployedTax;
	double pay;
	double netPay;
	
	standardTax = ((pay * 0.2)*0.15) + ((pay * 0.6)* 0.3);
	selfEmployedTax = ((pay * 0.6)*0.2);
	
	}

}

public class Employee{
	
	public Employee (String name,int pay, boolean tax){
		
		//calculateTAx method
		
	}
	
}

public class SelfEmployedEmployee extends Employee{

	// override CalculateTAx
}

public class StandardEmployee extends Employee{

	
	//override calculateTax
}