{"id":119963,"date":"2017-12-26T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=119963"},"modified":"2017-12-26T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T03:47:34","slug":"mere-1-7-people-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/mere-1-7-people-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mere 1.7% people paid IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just over 2 crore Indians, or 1.7 per cent of the total population, paid income tax in the assessment year (AY) 2015-16, according to data released by the I-T department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of income-tax return filers increased to 4.07 crore in assessment year 2015-16 (FY 2014-2015) from 3.65 crore in the previous year but only 2.06 crore actually paid tax as the others claimed income below taxable limits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-119964 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rupee-cashier-displays-banknotes-inside-jammu-indian_40399b38-c1b3-11e6-8728-207aa32e9ca3.jpg\" alt=\"Mere 1.7% people paid IT\" width=\"712\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rupee-cashier-displays-banknotes-inside-jammu-indian_40399b38-c1b3-11e6-8728-207aa32e9ca3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rupee-cashier-displays-banknotes-inside-jammu-indian_40399b38-c1b3-11e6-8728-207aa32e9ca3-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the previous AY 2014-15, 1.91 crore, out of 3.65 crore who filed returns, had paid income tax.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the total income tax paid by individuals declined to Rs 1.88 lakh crore in AY 2015-16 from Rs 1.91 lakh crore in AY 2014-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over 2 crore Indians, or 1.7 per cent of the total population, paid income tax in the assessment year (AY) 2015-16, according to data released by the I-T department. The number of income-tax return filers increased to 4.07 crore in assessment year 2015-16 (FY 2014-2015) from 3.65 crore in the previous year but only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61495,61496,19774,685,61498,61497],"class_list":["post-119963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-2-crore-indians","tag-assessment-year-2015-16","tag-i-t-department","tag-income-tax","tag-mere-1-7-people-paid-it","tag-rs-1-88-lakh-crore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Income-Tax-380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}