Can't get anything but $0 from a call to a method to calculate a taxAmount

Question

I am having trouble with this following call, specially the last component:

Console.WriteLine(\"Taxpayer # {0} SSN: {1}, Income is {2:c}, Tax is {3:c}\", i + 1,          


        

Answer 1

No-repro. Using the simple program below, I get valid non-zero result (900 using my values):

internal class Program {
    private static int incLimit = 30000;
    private static float lowTaxRate = 0.18F;
    private static float highTaxRate = 0.30F;

    private static void Main(string[] args) {
        var result = CalculateTax(5000);
    }

    public static int CalculateTax(int income) {
        int taxOwed;
        // If income is less than the limit then return the tax
        //   as income times low rate.
        if (income < incLimit) {
            taxOwed = Convert.ToInt32(income * lowTaxRate);
        }
        // If income is greater than or equal to the limit then
        //   return the tax as income times high rate.
        else if (income >= incLimit) {
            taxOwed = Convert.ToInt32(income * highTaxRate);
        }
        else taxOwed = 0;

        return taxOwed;
    }
}