Direct tax mopup rises 294 percent in a decade

New Delhi: India's personal income tax collection grew at double the pace of corporate tax collections in the last one decade, on account of better compliance and reduction in corporate tax, the latest time series data released by the Central Board of Direct Taxes on Thursday showed.

The personal income tax collection grew by 294.3% to ₹10.45 lakh crore in FY24, from ₹2.65 lakh crore in FY15, while corporate tax collections rose by 112.85% to ₹9.11 lakh crore from ₹4.28 lakh crore in FY15. Total number of taxpayers surged to 10.41 crore, from 5.70 crore in FY15, as per the data. The number of tax returns more than doubled to 8.61 crore in 2024 from 4.04 crore in FY15. The tax-to-GDP ratio showed a marked improvement at 6.64% in FY25 as compared with 5.55% in FY15. Tax buoyancy increased to 2.12 from 0.86, the data showed, with the contribution of direct tax to the overall tax kitty rising marginally to 56.72% in FY24, from 56.16% in FY15.

How States Fared
Five states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat contributed over 72% of net direct tax collections, totalling ₹14.19 lakh crore out of ₹ 19.61 lakh crore. Maharashtra accounted for ₹7.61 lakh crore, almost one third of total net direct tax collections. Eight states have net collections over ₹50,000 crore.