Budget 2025: How India's wealth shifted to the pockets of top 1%
India TodayTo raise the spending power of the middle class, the Centre in the 2023-24 Budget extended full rebate up to an income of Rs 7 lakh, raising it from Rs 5 lakh under the new tax regime. While 57.7 per cent of income is in the hands of the top 10 per cent of people, 65 per cent of wealth lies with them. The top 0.01 per cent or nearly 92,234 people earned Rs 10.18 crore and the top 0.001 per cent earned Rs 48.52 crore. This means that the top 1 per cent of people have 75 times more income and 313 times more wealth than the bottom 50 per cent of people in India. It adds that besides serving as a tool to fight inequality, a “super tax” of two per cent on the net wealth of the 167 wealthiest families in 2022-23 would yield 0.5 per cent of national income in revenues and create valuable fiscal space to facilitate such investments.