West Bengal Professional Tax

West Bengal sets professional tax by your gross pay for the month. Each band has its own monthly amount, taken from your pay every month.

In all, West Bengal has 4 paying bands above a nil band (up to ₹20,000). The tax is a fixed amount for the band you are in, not a percentage of your pay, so a raise inside a band changes nothing and a raise across a band changes it by one step.

The ladder compares each band’s yearly tax with the ₹2,500 legal limit. A salary at the top band pays the most West Bengal allows.

Each example is worked by the same engine as the calculator above, at a salary inside a different band: ₹30,000, ₹80,000 and ₹2,00,000. The yearly tax rises from ₹1,200 to ₹2,496.

The same figures apply to every employee in West Bengal, whatever their gender.

Look for a line called “Professional tax”, “PT” or “Prof. tax” among the deductions. It sits beside provident fund and income tax, and it is subtracted from your gross pay before the amount that reaches your bank.

If the amount differs from the figure here, your employer may be using an older slab or a different salary figure: ask payroll which gross pay it applies the slab to.

West Bengal’s rules have been revised once in the period we track. From October 2026: ₹30,000 a month went from ₹1,800 to ₹1,200 a year, ₹80,000 a month went from ₹2,400 to ₹2,040 a year and ₹2,00,000 a month went from ₹2,400 to ₹2,496 a year.

The calculator uses the schedule in force now. If your employer has not updated payroll yet, your payslip may still show the earlier figure.