Woman techie highest tax payer in AP, Telangana with Rs 300 million salary

CBDT has said that nearly 13 million income tax filers are likely to be added during the current financial year

Guess who paid the highest amount of income tax in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh last year? It wasn't some CEO or high-flying executive. Instead, a Hyderabad-based female techie clinched that distinction. 

Working at a Hyderabad-based information technology company, an unnamed woman, who earns a salary of Rs 300 million (Rs 30 crore) per year, paid Rs 90 million (Rs 9 crore), or 30 per cent of her annual salary, as income tax for financial year 2016-17, reported The News Minute on Tuesday. 

Speaking at the I-T department's annual press on Monday, Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax of AP and