Total tax paid
₨ 1,500
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₨ 1,250 to pay you ₨ 4,238. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 3.54 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 5.9% tax rate now rises to 27.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 21.4% higher than what it seemed at first.