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What percentage of Indian population paid income tax recently?

The report further states that a total of 28.7 million individuals filed income tax returns, of which 16.2 million did not pay any tax, leaving only about 12.5 million tax-paying individuals, which is just about 1 percent of the total population of India.
As we know farmers do not pay tax as they are exempted from it and the percentage of their population is nearly 60% in India. On the other hand there are majority of street seller in India called Rari Wala, they are not paying a single rupee as a income tax while 10% of them earning more than 1.5 lac per month causes great loss to Indian Government. Above this a great percentage of more than 70% are the salaried person among the income tax payer in India.