Professional tax: your state, your slab
Pick the state where you work, enter monthly salary, and get the PT deduction, including the states where the correct answer is nothing at all.
Slabs as verified July 2026 — states revise them by notification. Confirm your state's current slab before deducting.
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The deduction
The constitutional cap is ₹2,500 per person per year in every state. Exemption categories (persons with disabilities, senior citizens, armed forces) are state-specific and certificate-driven.
Why PT differs at every border
Professional tax is state legislation, so everything varies: Karnataka charges ₹200 a month only above ₹25,000 gross; Maharashtra tiers from ₹7,500 with a ₹300 February squaring the annual total; West Bengal, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh run their own tiers; Gujarat levies ₹200 from ₹12,000; Tamil Nadu assesses half-yearly rather than monthly; Kerala collects through municipal local bodies; and Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan levy none. The treatment follows where each employee works (not where the company is registered) which is why remote and multi-city teams span several regimes in one payroll run. The full mechanism map, including registration duties and exemptions, is in the professional tax by state guide.
A worked example
One company, four colleagues on ₹30,000 gross: the Bengaluru employee deducts ₹200 a month (above Karnataka's ₹25,000 threshold); the Pune employee ₹200 monthly with ₹300 in February (₹2,500 for the year); the Chennai employee accrues Tamil Nadu's half-yearly assessment instead of a monthly line; and the Gurugram employee deducts nothing, correctly. Same salary, four correct payslips: the state field, not the salary, decided every one.
Slabs as verified July 2026 — treat your state's current notification as the authority.
Running a multi-state team? PeopleDeck maps PT per work state and applies each regime automatically.
Frequently asked questions
Which states have no professional tax?
Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan among others levy none: the calculator's no-PT option covers them, and a payslip without a PT line is the compliant treatment there.
Why does the calculator ask for my state and not my city?
PT is state legislation: one regime per state (Kerala's local-body pattern being the exception where your municipality matters). Your work state, not your employer's registered office, decides the slab.
What is the maximum professional tax anyone can pay?
₹2,500 per year, a constitutional cap binding every state, which is why top slabs cluster around ₹200 a month and why Maharashtra's ₹300 February exists to square the annual total.
Are these slabs guaranteed current?
Verified against 2026-27 state compilations in July 2026, but states revise slabs by notification, so treat your state's current notification (or the manual-entry option) as the authority.
Who remits PT — me or my employer?
Your employer deducts it from salary and remits to the state on its cadence. Self-employed professionals enrol and pay directly under the same acts.
Every state's slab, applied automatically.
PeopleDeck maps PT from each employee's work state — per employee, per month.
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