Total tax paid
₨ 12,735
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₨ 1,250 to pay you ₨ 179,877. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 0.71 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
7.0%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 6.4% tax rate now rises to 7.0%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.6% higher than what it seemed at first.