Over ** million income tax returns (ITRs) were filed in the assessment year 2024 in India. It was estimated to increase to over ** million in the year 2025. The number of income taxpayers has more than doubled since 2014.

Over ** million income tax returns were filed in India in the assessment year 2024. There were over ** million taxpayers in the income group of *** thousand to *** thousand Indian rupees, the highest across all other income categories.

This dataset contains the number of personal income taxpayers in India by tax slabs.

Shahrukh Khan, a Hindi film industry actor was India's leading celebrity taxpayer with a tax contribution worth *** million in the financial year 2024. Thalapathy Vijay, a Tamil film industry actor and playback singer ranked second with tax contributions worth *** million Indian rupees. He joined politics in *************.

This Dataset contains year wise total number of Corporate Taxpayers, Share of Govt.Employees/ pensioners in Personal Tax Payers Category, Personal Tax Payers and Total Taxpayers

Key information about India Tax revenue: % of GDP

• India Tax revenue: % of GDP was reported at 6.8 % in Dec 2024.
• This records a decrease from the previous number of 9.1 % for Sep 2024.
• India Tax revenue: % of GDP data is updated quarterly, averaging 7.4 % from Jun 1997 to Dec 2024, with 111 observations.
• The data reached an all-time high of 10.8 % in Mar 2015 and a record low of 3.0 % in Jun 2003.
• India Tax revenue: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data.
• The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Global Economic Monitor – Table: Tax Revenue: % of Nominal GDP: Quarterly.

CEIC calculates quarterly Tax Revenue as % of Nominal GDP from monthly Tax Revenue and quarterly Nominal GDP. The Controller General of Accounts provides Tax Revenue in local currency. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation provides Nominal GDP in local currency based on SNA 2008. Tax Revenue covers Central Government only. Nominal GDP prior to Q2 2011 is based on a combination of SNA 2008 and SNA 1993, at 2004-2005 prices and prior to Q2 2004 is based on SNA 1993, at 1999-2000 prices.

This statistic shows the value of total income earned by tax payers across India in the fiscal year of *******, broken down by income range. For instance, the total income from tax payers who earned between ******* and ******* Indian rupees in that year amounted to about *** trillion Indian rupees. The number of tax payers broken down by income range can be accessed here.

The dataset contains year-, sector- and business-type-wise total numer of corporate and non-corporate Direct (income) taxpayers in India

Current and historical data on India's tax revenue - source-wise and state-wise collections, GDP contribution, taxpayer ratio, and comparison with global peers.

This Dataset contains State wise and Registration type wise total number of active GST payers

By the financial year 2022, **** percent of the income group of up to *** thousand Indian rupees left the lower strata. There was over ***** percent growth in the income tax filing population in the group of *** thousand to *** million income.

As of July 2020, the state of Maharashtra housed the largest population of GST taxpayers in India amounting to about **** million in number. The overall size of the GST taxpaying population in India that year tallied approximately ***** million. The GST was introduced by the Indian government on July 1, 2017 as a singular indirect tax on the supply of goods and services which replaced most of the existing indirect taxes levied in the country.

At the end of 2024, the number of entities liable to pay the goods and services tax in India under the "normal taxpayer" category consisted of more than ********** taxpayers. Overall, there were over ********** registered GST taxpayers during this time. The GST was introduced by the Indian government on July 1, 2017, as a singular indirect tax on the supply of goods and services, which replaced most of the existing indirect taxes levied in the country. GST structure While the GST is paid by consumers, it is conveyed to the government by the businesses providing the goods and services. Currently, GST has a tier tax structure of * percent, ** percent, ** percent, and ** percent, with some exceptions for gold and real estate. Items such as food, education, and healthcare are exempt from GST. Luxury items and comfort goods are categorized under higher slabs, whereas necessities are included in lower and nil slab rates. The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) provides a single interface for taxpayers and governments. The system provides processes like registration, filing of returns, and tax payments, online. Impact on the economy GST implementation has proved to be beneficial on various fronts. These include higher revenues, uniformity in taxation, increased transparency, elimination of cascading taxes, online process, and efficient logistics and distribution system. As the GST gains wider acceptance, it is slowly leading to the formalization of the Indian economy.

As per Indian Union Budget estimates for financial year 2023, direct taxes accounted for **** percent and indirect taxes accounted for **** percent of total central tax collection in India. The source mentions that due to a cut in the corporate tax rate in 2019 and an increase in excise duty in financial year 2021, the share of direct taxes witnessed a fall following 2019. In a progressive tax system, the share of direct taxes is higher than indirect taxes.

This dataset provides values for PERSONAL INCOME TAX RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Reliance Industries was the highest taxpayer in India in the financial year 2023, with a tax contribution of over *** billion Indian rupees. The State Bank of India ranked second with over *** billion Indian rupees worth of tax contributions.

In fiscal year 2025, the value of taxes on income and property in India was projected to be about ** trillion Indian rupees. Over ** trillion rupees from taxes collected on income and property in the country were recorded in financial year 2022.

The Bollywood actor Salman Khan ranked as the highest known tax payer across India in 2017, with advanced tax payments of *** million Indian rupees. Akshay Kumar followed suite with tax payments worth *** million rupees that year.

The dataset contains year-, month- and state-wise compiled data from the year 2018 to till date on the number of electronic-way bills (e-way bills) on the goods which have been carried into, within and outside the states of India, but within India. The pertinent data contained in the dataset include number of suppliers, number of eway bills and total assessed amount of the goods which have been carried

Note: e-way bill is a document required to be carried by a person in charge of the conveyance carrying any consignment of goods of value exceeding fifty thousand rupees as mandated by the Government under Section 68 of the Goods and Services Tax Act, read with Rule 138 of the rules framed thereunder. It is generated from the GST Common Portal for eWay bill system by the registered persons or transporters who cause movement of goods of consignment before commencement of such movement