income-tax-payers-base-india

We obtained Authenticated numbers from the Ministry of Finance / Dept of Revenue on the total number of Income tax Payers in India. We wanted to know the break up under each class and here is the breakup as given by IT Department on all India basis.

How many Salaried / Pensioners / Family pensioners with Interest filed returns for AY 2008-09 ?
The Number of Income Tax Payers / Assesses in India who have income from Salary, or Pension is 60.35 Lakh / 6.035 mn [Filed using ITR 1]

How many Income Tax Assesses are there in India who

We have just received Information from the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue Assistant Director on the total number of Income Tax Assesses in India. Can you take a guess ? India’s population is around 1.1 bn while the Income tax assesses / payers are less than 4%. yes you have read that right. Here is how the Income Tax Payers Base in India looks like,