India: Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.82 percentage points in 2015. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

Closest to India in the 2022 ranking

• Equatorial Guinea — 2nd of 8: 79.21%
• Australia — 3rd of 8: 76.64%
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 4th of 8: 59.81%
• Ecuador — 6th of 8: 29.21%
• Serbia — 7th of 8: 28.76%
• Lao PDR — 8th of 8: 23.61%

What this measures

Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains are taxes payable on the actual or presumed incomes, profits and capital gains. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of total taxes which includes all compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units.

Limitations: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

All 46 values

Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes) in nearby economies

• Bangladesh — 32.37% (2021)
• Bhutan — 48.91% (2020)
• Maldives — 17.44% (2021)
• Nepal — 32.48% (2023)
• Sri Lanka — 33.49% (2023)

More public sector data for India

• Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values) — 2.86 billion (2025)
• Military expenditure (current USD) — 92.06 billion (2025)
• Military expenditure (current LCU) — 8.02 trillion (2025)
• Military expenditure (% of GDP) — 2.3% (2025)
• Net acquisition of financial assets (current LCU) — 3.89 trillion (2022)
• Net acquisition of financial assets (% of GDP) — 1.49% (2022)
• Net incurrence of liabilities, total (current LCU) — 17.63 trillion (2022)
• Net incurrence of liabilities, total (% of GDP) — 6.75% (2022)
• Net investment in nonfinancial assets (current LCU) — 2.39 trillion (2022)
• Net investment in nonfinancial assets (% of GDP)

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Questions people ask

What is India's taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes)?

47.15% in 2022, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1974?

It is up 22.59 percentage points from 24.56% in 1974. The highest value was 58.78% in 2009 and the lowest 17.6% in 1987.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator GC.TAX.YPKG.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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