Total tax paid
₨ 18,000
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₨ 15,000 to pay you ₨ 178,880. In other words, every time you spend ₨ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₨ 1.01 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
9.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 1.7% tax rate now rises to 9.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 7.6% higher than what it seemed at first.