Professional tax by state · State · FY 2026-27
Odisha has repealed its professional tax
Odisha has repealed its professional tax, with effect from 1 April 2026. Nothing is deductible from a salary in FY 2026-27.
Repealed
Nothing is deductible in Odisha for FY 2026-27. Employers should have stopped deducting professional tax from salaries paid for periods from .
Odisha State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 2000, REPEALED by Odisha Ordinance 02 of 2026, promulgated under Article 213(1) on 21 April 2026 (Odisha Gazette Extraordinary No. 1496 of 21 April 2026, Law Department Notification 5969-I-Legis-22/2026/L.), in force with effect from 1 April 2026
Odisha abolished professional tax outright with effect from 1 April 2026, so nothing is deductible in FY 2026-27. Arrears for periods before that date remain recoverable — clause 2(2) of the Ordinance saves assessments made, taxes paid and arrears to be realised. Many payroll systems have not caught up — if your payslip still shows a deduction, that is worth raising with your employer. Regraded medium→high on 9 August 2026 (T-015): the citation moved off a commercial tax blog onto the gazette itself, published by the Finance Department. The Ordinance was promulgated three weeks after the date it takes effect from, which is why FY 2026-27 payroll run in early April was still deducting.
- Deducted from your salary
- Nothing
- Repealed with effect from
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The cap every state is under
Article 276(2), Constitution of India limits professional tax to ₹2,500 a person a year, whatever a state’s own schedule says. Several states are written to land exactly on it — that is why Karnataka and Maharashtra charge a different amount in one month of the year, and why an annual total on this page never exceeds ₹2,500.
Where this comes from
Statute: Odisha State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 2000, REPEALED by Odisha Ordinance 02 of 2026, promulgated under Article 213(1) on 21 April 2026 (Odisha Gazette Extraordinary No. 1496 of 21 April 2026, Law Department Notification 5969-I-Legis-22/2026/L.), in force with effect from 1 April 2026
Read from finance.odisha.gov.in, last verified . This dataset is re-checked quarterly — the failure mode here is a state joining or leaving the list, not a slab moving, so we search for repeals and re-introductions every cycle. The full method is on our methodology page.
Your actual take-home
Professional tax is a line on most Indian payslips, and in Odisha it is not one of them. What decides your take-home here is everything else: income tax, EPF, gratuity. Our CTC to in-hand calculator, opened on Odisha, deducts nothing here — which is the whole finding of this page — computes the rest under the Income-tax Act 2025, and shows the working for every line. Put your own CTC in it and read the figure rather than the rate.
Which leaves income tax as the line that decides it — and the thing that moves income tax most is the regime you are taxed under. That choice is yours to make rather than your state’s, so compare both regimes on Odisha figures — it computes each one and says which pays less tax on the numbers you enter, and nothing beyond that.