Professional tax in Telangana
Nil to ₹15,000, ₹150 to ₹20,000, ₹200 above — no February top-up, so the most anyone pays is ₹2,400. Plus how to pay it online.
Telangana professional tax slab
As of 6 February 2013 · First Schedule substituted by G.O.Ms.No.82 dated 4 February 2013 (gazette of 6 February 2013); unchanged since · last checked 1 November 2026
You pay ₹200 per month at a salary of ₹50,000 — ₹2,400 a year.
| Monthly salary | Professional tax | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Up to ₹15,000 | Nil | ₹0 |
| ₹15,001 to ₹20,000 | ₹150 a month | ₹1,800 |
| Above ₹20,000 | ₹200 a month | ₹2,400 |
Source: Telangana Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1987. New to professional tax? What it is and why every State is different.
How much professional tax is deducted in Telangana?
Nothing up to ₹15,000 a month, ₹150 a month from ₹15,001 to ₹20,000, and ₹200 a month above ₹20,000 — ₹2,400 a year at most, with no higher February amount. Employers pay by the 10th of the next month, online at ptax.tgct.gov.in.
Key takeaways
- →Nil to ₹15,000; ₹150 from ₹15,001 to ₹20,000; ₹200 above.
- →No February ₹300: the maximum is ₹2,400 a year, not ₹2,500.
- →Unchanged since G.O.Ms.No.82 of February 2013.
- →Late payment costs 2% a month, part-months counted in full.
- →No senior-citizen exemption was found — age alone does not exempt you.
Professional tax calculator
Your State and monthly salary in — what is deducted, when, and whether you are exempt
Where you work, not where your company is registered.
The gross on your payslip, before any deductions.
Exemptions differ by State. The result says whether yours is recognised.
Deducted from your salary each month
₹200
₹2,400 a year in Telangana. Your slab: Above ₹20,000 (monthly salary).
How it comes out of your pay
- Every month₹200
- Total for the year₹2,400
When your employer must pay it
A return in Form V, with proof of payment of the full tax, by the 10th of the month after the month it relates to.
Where this comes from
Telangana Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1987. Slabs as of 2013-02-06. Full Telangana rules
Show the working
- 1Gross monthly salary₹50,000
- 2Slab (Telangana, as of 2013-02-06)Above ₹20,000
- 3Tax for the month₹200
- 4Every month₹200
- 5Total for the year₹2,400
A slab that has not moved since 2013
Telangana inherited the undivided Andhra Pradesh Act of 1987, adapted it in 2015, and still uses the salary slab set by G.O.Ms.No.82 of 4 February 2013. The thresholds have not been raised in thirteen years, so every pay rise since has carried more employees past ₹20,000 and into the ₹200 band.
Telangana never added a February top-up either. Any calculator showing ₹2,500 for Telangana has borrowed Karnataka's or Maharashtra's pattern.
Paying Telangana professional tax online
The Commercial Taxes Department's own portal, ptax.tgct.gov.in, handles registration and e-payment and issues an e-receipt. Employers file Form V with proof of full payment by the 10th of the following month.
With one employer you never pay yourself. You need the portal only if self-employed, a professional, or holding a second job: the second proviso to s.5 lets you give your employer a certificate (Form III or IV), enrol, and pay before 30 June each year instead.
Telangana professional tax due dates, interest and penalty
Monthly for employers, by the 10th of the following month, according to the department's guidance; yearly for enrolled individuals, before 30 June.
| Telangana rule | |
|---|---|
| Employer deducting from salary | A return in Form V, with proof of payment of the full tax, by the 10th of the month after the month it relates to. |
| Self-employed or enrolled person | Before 30 June if enrolled before the year began or by 31 May; within one month of enrolment if enrolled after 31 May (s.10). |
| Interest on late payment | Interest at 2% a month — "two rupees for every one hundred rupees or part thereof for every month or part thereof" — from the due date (s.11, Rule 24). |
| Penalty | A penalty of not less than 25% and not more than 50% of the tax due, on top of interest (s.12). |
| Late return fee | ₹5 to ₹100 for each day the return is late (s.7(3)). |
What paying late costs, in rupees
Every part-month counts as a full month, and the penalty is 25% to 50%, so even a short delay is expensive. On ₹2,400 a year:
| Paid late by | Interest | Penalty | Total extra |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 months | ₹144 | ₹600 to ₹1,200 | ₹744 to ₹1,344 |
| 12 months | ₹576 | ₹600 to ₹1,200 | ₹1,176 to ₹1,776 |
Telangana professional tax payment online and registration
A general e-payment page for all Commercial Taxes Acts also exists on tgct.gov.in, but the dedicated PT portal is the one that issues the profession tax e-receipt.
Who is exempt from professional tax in Telangana
Exemptions for salaried people are narrow: a 1988 order for totally blind persons, and a 1990 order, widened in 2007 to 40% disability of any kind.
| Who | What the law says | Provision |
|---|---|---|
| Persons with disability | Persons with 40% disability of any kind (modified from "totally crippled persons" in 2007), and totally blind persons. | s.31; G.O.Ms.No.95 dated 2 July 1990 as amended by G.O.Ms.No.1063 dated 2 August 2007; G.O.Ms.No.32 dated 13 January 1988 |
| Salary up to ₹15,000 a month | Nil under the Schedule. | First Schedule, entry 1(i) |
Telangana professional tax: two worked examples
1. A retail associate in Warangal on ₹18,000 a month
The middle band: ₹150 a month. A raise to ₹20,001 would add ₹600 a year in professional tax.
2. A data analyst in Hyderabad on ₹85,000 a month
Above ₹20,000 the top band applies however high the salary: ₹200 every month, February included.
| Step | Example 1 | Example 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Gross monthly salary | ₹18,000 | ₹85,000 |
| Slab | ₹15,001 to ₹20,000 | Above ₹20,000 |
| Deducted | ₹150 every month | ₹200 every month |
| Professional tax for the year | ₹1,800 | ₹2,400 |
How Telangana professional tax shows on your payslip
The line should be identical every month. ₹300 in February means payroll has applied another State's rule. Form 16 shows ₹2,400 as tax on employment.
Telangana against its neighbours
At ₹50,000 a month Telangana takes ₹2,400 against ₹2,500 in Karnataka and Maharashtra — but it starts charging at ₹15,001, where Karnataka waits until ₹25,000.
What we could not verify for Telangana
Left out rather than guessed. If any of these matters to you, ask your payroll team or the department.
- No Telangana exemption was found for senior citizens, armed forces or parents of disabled children on the department's list of notifications. That is not proof none exists, so this page does not claim one either way.
- The 10th-of-the-month due date comes from the department's own help page; it was not found in the text of the Rules.
Telangana professional tax: questions people ask
How do I pay professional tax online in Telangana?
What is the professional tax slab in Telangana?
Is ₹300 professional tax deducted in February in Telangana?
What is the due date for professional tax in Telangana?
What is the penalty for late payment of professional tax in Telangana?
Are senior citizens exempt from professional tax in Telangana?
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Sources for the figures on this page
Telangana: slab table (as of 2013-02-06)
Telangana Commercial Taxes Department, First Schedule ("As amended upto date"): "1 Salary and wage earners whose monthly salaries or wages in Rs: (i) Up to 15,000 Nil (ii) From 15,001 to 20,000 150 PM (iii) Above 20,000 200 PM". There is no February top-up, so the top band pays ₹2,400 a year.
View sourceChecked 2026-11-01
Telangana: due dates
Telangana Commercial Taxes Department, profession tax payment help page: the employer's return "shall be accompanied by a treasury challan/DD/Cheque/e-payment in proof of payment of the full amount of tax due on or before 10th day of month succeeding the month for which the return to be filed". Act s.10 for enrolled persons.
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Telangana: interest and penalty
Telangana Profession Tax Rules, Rule 24 (interest), and Act s.12 ("a penalty which shall not be less than twenty five percent but not exceeding fifty percent of the amount of tax due. This penalty shall be in addition to the interest").
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Telangana: exemptions
Telangana Commercial Taxes Department, list of profession tax G.O.s and notifications.
View sourceChecked 2026-11-01
Constitutional ceiling on the total professional tax payable by one person in a State, per year
Constitution of India, Article 276(2), as amended by the Constitution (Sixtieth Amendment) Act, 1988. The Statement of Objects and Reasons records that clause (2) previously capped the tax at "two hundred and fifty rupees per annum" and that it was "accordingly proposed to amend clause (2) of article 276 of the Constitution to increase the ceiling of profession tax from two hundred and fifty rupees per annum to two thousand and five hundred rupees per annum", omitting the then-existing proviso as no longer relevant. The levy itself is imposed by each State under Article 276(1) through its own Act, so the slabs differ by State and no national slab table exists.
View sourceChecked 2026-10-14
Written and reviewed by Deepak Middha, Chartered Accountant (ICAI, India) and founder of LayoffNext.
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