Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Revenue

Central Board of Direct Taxes

New Delhi, 20th December, 2017

PRESS RELEASE

Release of Income Tax Return Statistics for AY 2015-16.

Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) has been proactively releasing Time-series Data relating to Direct Tax collections, number of taxpayers, cost of collection etc., as also data of number of PAN allotted and data relating to distribution of income and tax payable in the returns filed for different Assessment Years. In this series, analysis of income declared and tax payable for Assessment Years 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 has already been released by CBDT last year and the updated Time-series Data has already been released earlier this year.

In continuation of its efforts to place more and more information in public domain, CBDT has further released data relating to distribution of income and tax payable in respect of returns filed for Assessment Year 2015-16. With this release, detailed income-tax data for four recent assessment years (apart from Time-series Data from FY 2000-01 to FY 2016-17) have become available in public domain enabling researchers, scholars, policy makers, students and all other stakeholders to make a better analysis of the trends in incomes and tax payments.

The reports containing the released data are available at www.incometaxindia.gov.in.

(Surabhi Ahluwalia)

Commissioner of Income Tax

(Media & Technical Policy)

Official Spokesperson, CBDT.

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Income tax return statistics released: detailed AY 2015 16 income and tax distribution data now publicly available. The Central Board of Direct Taxes released detailed Income Tax Return Statistics for AY 2015 16 based on returns captured up to 30 September 2017; 4.35 crore returns meeting defined consistency rules were analysed. The publication provides disaggregated tables by income heads (GTI, salary, house property, business, capital gains, other sources, interest), tax payable, returned income and loss set offs across value ranges and by taxpayer class (individuals, HUF, firms, AOP/BOI, companies), accompanied by methodology, consistency rules, definitions and noted limitations.