Total tax paid
₨ 25,439
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₨ 1,250 to pay you ₨ 250,944. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 1.01 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
10.1%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 9.6% tax rate now rises to 10.1%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.5% higher than what it seemed at first.