Kerala Professional Tax — Effective 1 Oct 2024
Last verified on 20 Aug 2026Effective from 1 Oct 2024Source PDF not available in this environment
Researched, pending legal review. Statutory values on this page are researched from public sources (compiled 26 August 2026) and are awaiting review by our legal team. Verify against the source notification before acting on them.
Professional tax is levied by the state on monthly gross earnings, in slabs. Not every state levies it at all, and the states that do differ on the slab boundaries, the annual cap and the return frequency — Maharashtra, for instance, collects a higher amount in February to reach its annual ceiling.
- Period
- Half yearly
- Source
- Kerala Panchayat Raj Act / Kerala Municipality Act 1994 (amended 2015) — via cleartax.in, adityabirlacapital.com; "effective 01.10.2024" cited but not traced to a primary state notification (D-055)
- Currency
- INR
- Annual max
- ₹2,500.00
- Researched
- Researched 2026-08-26, pending legal review (D-055)
Slabs
| To | From | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| ₹11,999.00 | ₹0.00 | ₹0.00 |
| ₹17,999.00 | ₹12,000.00 | ₹320.00 |
| ₹29,999.00 | ₹18,000.00 | ₹450.00 |
| ₹44,999.00 | ₹30,000.00 | ₹600.00 |
| ₹99,999.00 | ₹45,000.00 | ₹750.00 |
| ₹1,24,999.00 | ₹1,00,000.00 | ₹1,000.00 |
| and above | ₹1,25,000.00 | ₹1,250.00 |
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