Total tax paid
₨ 12,500
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₨ 1,250 to pay you ₨ 178,000. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 0.70 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
7.0%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 6.3% tax rate now rises to 7.0%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.7% higher than what it seemed at first.