Know the companies that pay low tax

FM had said IT dept should focus on those below-average sectors to see if the average could be raised to collect more taxes

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has asked the Income Tax department to focus on the companies that pay less than effective tax rate of 24 per cent. The following is the list of companies from the Nifty, which fall in this category:
 

Company	Year End	Profit before tax*	Tax*	Effective tax rate (%)
Ranbaxy Lab	Dec 2011	-2,686	218	Nil
Cairn India	Mar 2012	8,423	373	4.4
Reliance Infra	Mar 2012	1,804	175	9.7
Sun Pharma	Mar 2012	3,355	383	11.4
Bank of Baroda	Mar 2012	6,304	1,088	17.3
HCL Tech	Jun 2012	2,361	410	17.4
Tata Motors	Mar 2012	13,534	2,525	18.7
Jindal Steel	Mar 2012	5,189	1,000	19.3
Maruti Suzuki	Mar 2012	2,145	418	19.5
ACC	Dec 2011	1,505	296	19.6
Cipla	Mar 2012	1,448	286	19.8
Reliance Inds	Mar 2012	25,408	5,226	20.6
Hindalco Inds	Mar 2012	4,345	925	21.3
Wipro	Mar 2012	6,981	1,584	22.7
Sterlite Inds	Mar 2012	9,872	2,248	22.8
HUL	Mar 2012	3,622	832	23.0
NTPC	Mar 2012	13,137	3,106	23.6
* Figures in Rs crore                                                                 Source: CapitalinePlus