Total tax paid
₨ 86,205
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₨ 1,250 to pay you ₨ 500,002. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 1.72 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
17.2%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 17% tax rate now rises to 17.2%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.2% higher than what it seemed at first.