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 ₨ 9,191. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 1.63 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
14.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 2.7% tax rate now rises to 14.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 11.7% higher than what it seemed at first.