While India had 764,000 dollar-millionaires in 2019 by one account, just 316,000 filed tax returns declaring income of over $75,000. Large-scale I-T evasion may still be taking place, notes T N Ninan
These households have average saving of Rs 20-lakh per annum and allocate mostly towards physical assets such as primary residential property and automobiles
Forty Indians entered the billionaires' club in the pandemic-stricken 2020 to take the number of those in the coveted list to 177 people, a report said on Tuesday.
On an average, this would give the affluent class Rs 93,000 to live on per month during retirement, which is less than both their current income and wealth aspirations
Compared to a 1.4% rise in global wealth, India has seen a contraction of 0.8%; Indian household wealth is unevenly spread with an average $10,000 falling to the share of 96% of the country's adults