Telangana profession tax — First Schedule of the Telangana Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1987, as amended, from the Commercial Taxes Department (captured 16.09.2026)
- Notification number
- None — this document carries no number
- Issued for
- Telangana
- Date
- 16 September 2026
- Topic
- Rate schedule
What it says
The Commercial Taxes Department's text of the First and Second Schedules of the 1987 Act, 'as amended upto date'. Salary and wage earners: nil up to ₹15,000 a month, ₹150 from ₹15,001 to ₹20,000, ₹200 above ₹20,000. The Second Schedule removes profession tax from the municipal and panchayat Acts, so the tax is levied statewide under this Act.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Professional tax · Telangana.
- Exempt
- Entry 39 of the schedule exempts, among others, persons with 40% or more disability.
- Monthly
- ₹150 a month from ₹15,001 to ₹20,000; ₹200 a month above ₹20,000
- Slab.15000
- 0
- Slab.20000
- 150
- Slab.Above
- 200
- Slabs
- Salary and wage earners pay nothing up to ₹15,000 a month, ₹150 a month from ₹15,001 to ₹20,000, and ₹200 a month above ₹20,000 (First Schedule, entry 1, as amended).
- Statewide
- The Act's Second Schedule removes profession tax from the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, the Gram Panchayats Act and the Municipalities Act, so profession tax in Telangana is levied under this Act alone.
- Threshold
- ₹15,001 a month