Lok Sabha Question No. 3256 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-09
Subject: Taxpayers
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Sunil Kumar Mondal, Sudarshan Bhagat, Jai Prakash

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE

## DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3256

TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY THE 09 th  December 2019 18, AGRAHAYANA, 1941 (SAKA)

## TAXPAYERS

## 3256. SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL:

SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT:

SHRI JAI PRAKASH:

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether there has been an increase in the number of taxpayers in the country during the last five years and if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (b) whether the Government has received any such complaints where taxpayers have been threatened or misled using fake e-mails;
- (c) if so, whether the Government has taken any steps to protect honest taxpayers from such misleading fake e-mails and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the  details  of  income  tax  collected  during  the  financial  year  2018-19  through  different sources, State/UT-wise?

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE

## ANSWER (SHRI ANURAG SINGH THAKUR)

- (a) Yes  Sir.    The  number  of  taxpayers  under  income-tax  has  been  consistently  increasing during the last five years, as under:

|   S.No. | Assessment Year   |   Total number of Taxpayers (in Crores) |
|---------|-------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|       1 | 2014-15           |                                    5.7  |
|       2 | 2015-16           |                                    6.14 |
|       3 | 2016-17           |                                    6.92 |
|       4 | 2017-18           |                                    7.43 |
|       5 | 2018-19           |                                    8.46 |

A  "Taxpayer"  is  a  person  who either  has  filed  a  return  of  income  for  the  relevant Assessment  Year  or  in  whose  case  tax  has  been  deducted  at  source  in  the  relevant Financial Year but the taxpayer has not filed the return of income.

State-wise details of number of taxpayers for the last 5 years are enclosed as Annexure-A.

| (b) &(c) Department over   | Yes Sir. Cases of phishing emails purporting to be from Income Tax Department and trying to fraudulently obtain sensitive personal and financial information have been reported by some taxpayers. To make the taxpayers aware that the Income Tax does not seek any confidential or financial information of the taxpayer email and to                                                           |
|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| (i) such is                | Publication of advisory in national website of Income-Tax Department informing taxpayers that Department does not request personal information, PIN, password or similar access information through e-mail. Accordingly, the taxpayers should not reply to, open attachments or click on links in any such email and forward emails to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in), which a |
| (ii)                       | Implementation of best practices such as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) for its email domains. Use of these protocols enable the e-mail receiver domains such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. to determine whether or not a received e-mail is actually from the defined                |
| sender                     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| (iii)                      | Creation of a tab titled 'Reminders/Campaigns' on the e-Filing Portal to inform taxpayers about all emails and SMSs sent by Department.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

- (d) State-wise details of direct taxes collected under different Major Heads are enclosed as Annexure-B.

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## STATE-WISE DETAILS OF NUMBER OF TAXPAYERS FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS

(in lakhs)

| Sr   | STATE NAME               |   AY 2014-15 |   AY 2015-16 |   AY 2016-17 |   AY 2017-18 |   AY 2018-19 |
|------|--------------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| 1    | Andaman& Nicobar Islands |         0.4  |         0.4  |         0.44 |         0.51 |         0.6  |
| 2    | Andhra Pradesh           |        27.85 |        26.7  |        30.03 |        34.53 |        38.34 |
| 3    | Arunachal Pradesh        |         0.24 |         0.25 |         0.3  |         0.36 |         0.47 |
| 4    | Assam                    |         7.65 |         8.34 |         9.62 |        10.36 |        13.15 |
| 5    | Bihar                    |        14.45 |        15.51 |        18.03 |        19.15 |        23.48 |
| 6    | Chandigarh               |         2.42 |         2.56 |         2.75 |         2.87 |         3.07 |
| 7    | Chhattisgarh             |         8.49 |         9.2  |        10.35 |        11.23 |        13.02 |
| 8    | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |         0.29 |         0.31 |         0.34 |         0.35 |         0.41 |
| 9    | Daman &Diu               |         0.21 |         0.23 |         0.26 |         0.29 |         0.33 |
| 10   | Delhi                    |        33.23 |        34.82 |        37.76 |        40.12 |        43.04 |
| 11   | FOREIGN                  |         1.34 |         1.32 |         1.35 |         1.69 |         2.05 |
| 12   | Goa                      |         2.45 |         2.53 |         2.78 |         2.99 |         3.39 |
| 13   | Gujarat                  |        50.84 |        56.45 |        64.46 |        67.56 |        74.8  |
| 14   | Haryana                  |        19.54 |        21.55 |        24.44 |        26.39 |        29.72 |
| 15   | Himachal Pradesh         |         4.78 |         5.11 |         5.71 |         6.73 |         7.72 |
| 16   | Jammu &Kashmir           |         4.42 |         4.66 |         5.51 |         6.27 |         7.36 |
| 17   | Jharkhand                |        10.43 |        11    |        12.33 |        13.1  |        15.14 |
| 18   | Karnataka                |        33.54 |        36.01 |        40.38 |        44.38 |        51.47 |
| 19   | Kerala                   |        14.87 |        15.79 |        18.32 |        22.15 |        26.37 |
| 20   | Lakshadweep              |         0.04 |         0.04 |         0.04 |         0.06 |         0.07 |
| 21   | Madhya Pradesh           |        22.22 |        24.11 |        27.03 |        28.42 |        33.49 |
| 22   | Maharashtra              |        98.72 |       103.85 |       114.28 |       118.32 |       130.74 |
| 23   | Manipur                  |         0.4  |         0.45 |         0.54 |         0.65 |         0.83 |
| 24   | Meghalaya                |         0.4  |         0.42 |         0.49 |         0.58 |         0.69 |
| 25   | Mizoram                  |         0.04 |         0.05 |         0.06 |         0.08 |         0.13 |
| 26   | Nagaland                 |         0.22 |         0.24 |         0.27 |         0.34 |         0.41 |
| 27   | Odisha                   |         9.95 |        11    |        12.6  |        13.83 |        16.21 |
| 28   | Puducherry               |         0.82 |         0.85 |         0.95 |         1.04 |         1.22 |
| 29   | Punjab                   |        25.48 |        27.47 |        30.84 |        32.55 |        36.66 |
| 30   | Rajasthan                |        31.4  |        34.6  |        39.82 |        42    |        47.81 |
| 31   | Sikkim                   |         0.17 |         0.17 |         0.19 |         0.23 |         0.27 |
| 32   | Tamil Nadu               |        38.07 |        40.27 |        44.89 |        48.37 |        56.26 |
| 33   | Telangana                |         7.76 |        12.57 |        16.02 |        16.73 |        20.98 |
| 34   | Tripura                  |         0.72 |         0.78 |         1.01 |         1.16 |         1.49 |
| 35   | Uttar Pradesh            |        50.57 |        54.92 |        63.13 |        67.85 |        78.22 |
| 36   | Uttarakhand              |         6.56 |         7.05 |         7.94 |         8.7  |        10.15 |
| 37   | West Bengal              |        39.42 |        42.34 |        47    |        50.68 |        56.21 |
|      | TOTAL                    |       570.39 |       613.91 |       692.27 |       742.63 |       845.73 |

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## Annexure-B

## STATEMENT SHOWING STATE-WISE COLLECTION OF DIRECT TAXES FOR F.Y 2018-19

(Rupees in Crores)

| S.No.       | States/Union Territories   |   0020-Corporation Tax |   0021-Taxes on Income other than Corporate Tax* | OTHERS**   |            Total |
|-------------|----------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|------------|------------------|
| 1           | ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS  |                  39.23 |                                            76.27 | 0.00       |    115.5         |
| 2           | ANDHRA PRADESH             |               22881    |                                         23243.6  | 97.99      |  46222.6         |
| 3           | ARUNACHAL PRADESH          |                 114.33 |                                           136.24 | 0.00       |    250.57        |
| 4           | ASSAM                      |                3803.77 |                                          2459.02 | 0.02       |   6262.81        |
| 5           | BIHAR                      |                1501.29 |                                          4736.81 | 1.31       |   6239.41        |
| 6           | CHANDIGARH                 |                 812.42 |                                          1917.74 | 0.50       |   2730.66        |
| 7           | CHHATISHGARH               |                1859.76 |                                          3412.2  | 0.08       |   5272.04        |
| 8           | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI     |                  81.66 |                                           174.95 | 0.03       |    256.65        |
| 9           | DAMANANDDIU                |                  87.72 |                                           183.21 | 0.00       |    270.93        |
| 10          | DELHI                      |              112745    |                                         53580.7  | 79.30      | 166405           |
| 11          | GOA                        |                 895.07 |                                          1564    | 0.15       |   2459.22        |
| 12          | GUJARAT                    |               24336.9  |                                         24677.4  | 7.18       |  49021.5         |
| 13          | HARYANA                    |               20189.8  |                                          9674.56 | 16.77      |  29881.2         |
| 14          | HIMACHAL PRADESH           |                 859.48 |                                          1560.42 | 0.02       |   2419.92        |
| 15          | JAMMU AND KASHMIR          |                 630.99 |                                           932.35 | 0.09       |   1563.42        |
| 16          | JHARKHAND                  |                2727.05 |                                          4206.58 | 0.00       |   6933.63        |
| 17          | KARNATAKA                  |               65207.3  |                                         54037.3  | 551.39     | 119796           |
| 18          | KERALA                     |                8323.51 |                                          8696.12 | 1.46       |  17021.1         |
| 19          | LAKHSWADEEP                |                   2.89 |                                            16.55 | 0.00       |     19.44        |
| 20          | MADHYAPRADESH              |               12142.5  |                                          7549.86 | 4.58       |  19696.9         |
| 21          | MAHARASHTRA                |              272116    |                                        141601    | 11672.96   | 425390           |
| 22          | MANIPUR                    |                  22.85 |                                           149.1  | 0.00       |    171.95        |
| 23          | MEGHALAYA                  |                 264.91 |                                           860.28 | 0.01       |   1125.2         |
| 24          | MIZORAM                    |                  14.39 |                                            45.18 | 0.00       |     59.57        |
| 25          | NAGALAND                   |                  11.1  |                                           110.11 | 0.00       |    121.21        |
| 26          | ORISSA                     |                9063    |                                          4357.43 | 0.02       |  13420.4         |
| 27          | PONDICHERRY                |                 215.9  |                                           584.07 | 0.05       |    800.02        |
| 28          | PUNJAB                     |                3705.12 |                                          8113.41 | 1.57       |  11820.1         |
| 29          | RAJASTHAN                  |               10157.4  |                                         10896.6  | 5.43       |  21059.4         |
| 30          | SIKKIM                     |                 209.86 |                                           269.75 | 0.06       |    479.67        |
| 31          | TAMILNADU                  |               43663.2  |                                         30519    | 56.46      |  74238.7         |
| 32          | TELANGANA                  |                6683.26 |                                          4173.82 | 3.12       |  10860.2         |
| 33          | TRIPURA                    |                  45.25 |                                           267.23 | 0.00       |    312.49        |
| 34          | UTTAR PRADESH              |                6716.23 |                                         20969.7  | 1.97       |  27687.9         |
| 35          | UTTRAKHAND                 |                1122.3  |                                          2142.82 | 0.07       |   3265.19        |
| 36          | WEST BENGAL                |               29731.4  |                                         14903.7  | 3.55       |  44638.6         |
| 37          | Total                      |              662984    |                                        442799    | 12506.15   |      1.11829e+06 |
| 38          | CTDS                       |                 587.78 |                                         18841.8  | -----      |  19429.6         |
| Grand Total |                            |              663572    |                                        461641    | 12506.15   |      1.13772e+06 |