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SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax

The SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector recruitment is be conducted for recruiting eligible candidates for the post of Income Tax Inspector in the CBDT under the Government of India. The selection of candidates will be carried out in three stages i.e. Tier 1 and Tier 2 and a Physical examination.

The SSC CGL exam, also known as Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level Exam is conducted to recruit candidates as Income Tax Inspectors, Excise & Customs Inspectors, Accountants, Junior Accountants, etc.
Tier I will be conducted for 200 marks and each subject will carry 50 marks. The subjects will be Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness and English.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Exam 2024 Exam Overview
Full-Form	Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level
Post	Income Tax Inspector
Conducting-Body	Staff Selection Commission
Mode of Application	Online
Mode of Exam	Online
Official Website	SSC
Qualification	Graduates Government Jobs
Category	SSC Jobs

SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Career Growth

The position of SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector is not only marked by respect but also carries significant responsibilities. However, the journey of an Income Tax Officer is not just challenging but also highly rewarding. It’s crucial for candidates to understand that with dedicated effort and effective management of responsibilities, they can enjoy numerous benefits. Explore the table below to gain insights into the career progression of Income Tax Inspectors and the opportunities that lie ahead.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Career Growth
Years of Service Required	New Designation
5 -6 Years	Income Tax Officer (ITO)
8-9 Years	Assistant Commissioner
4-5 Years	Deputy Commissioner
4-5 Years	Joint Commissioner
4-5 Years	Additional Commissioner
4-5 Years	Commissioner of Income Tax
10-12 years	Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax

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SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Age Limit

In order to apply for the SSC CGL exam for the position of Income Tax Inspector or Excise Inspector, candidate need to fulfill specific qualifying requirements. The following qualifications apply to both job profiles:

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector vs SSC CGL Excise Inspector Eligibility
Criteria	SSC CGL Excise Inspector	SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector
Nationality	Candidates must be Indian citizens.	Candidates must be Indian citizens.
Age Limit	Candidates must be between 18 and 30 years old.	Candidates must be between 18 and 30 years old.
Educational Qualification	Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized university.	Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized university.

Please note that age relaxation details for reserved categories are not specified in the provided information. Candidates are advised to refer to the official SSC CGL Notification for precise and updated eligibility criteria.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector vs SSC CGL Excise Inspector Eligibility
Category	Upper Age Relaxation
SC/ST	5 years
OBC	3 years
PwD (unreserved)	10 years
PwD (OBC)	13 years
PwD (SC/ST)	15 years
Ex-Servicemen (ESM)	3 years after military service has been deducted from the actual age on the closing date
Defence Personnel disabled during armed conflict with any foreign country or in an agitated area and released as a result (SC/ST)	3 years
Defence Personnel disabled during armed conflict with any foreign country or in an agitated area and released as a result (SC/ST)	8 years

SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility criteria for SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector are outlined in the table below. Candidates are strongly advised to carefully review the eligibility conditions prior to submitting their applications. It’s noteworthy that individuals with color blindness are also eligible to apply for the position of Income Tax Officer.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Eligibility Criteria
Nationality/ Citizenship	Citizen of India or The Subject of Bhutan/Nepal or Tibetan refugee (who comes to India before January 1, 1962, with an intention to settle permanently in India)
Age (Overview)	18-30 years
Educational Qualification	Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a recognized university.
No: of Attempts	No limit

SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Syllabus Tier 1

The first stage of the SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Recruitment Exam is Tier I. The Exam will be conducted Online and will consist of objective-type questions. The SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Tier 1 exam consists of 4 sections mentioned below:

General Intelligence and Reasoning
General Awareness
Quantitative Aptitude
English Language And Comprehension

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier I: General Intelligence And Reasoning

General Intelligence is one of the high-scoring sections in the SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector exam. This section includes both verbal and non-verbal reasoning. Let us understand the SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector syllabus of General Intelligence and Reasoning.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier 1: General Intelligence & Reasoning
Analogies	Similarities & Differences	Space Visualization	Spatial Orientation	Problem Solving	Analysis
Judgment	Decision Making	Visual Memory	Discriminantion	Observation	Relationship Concepts
Arithmetical Reasoning	Figural Classification	Arithmetic number series	Non-verbal series	Coding & decoding	Statement conclusion
Semantic Analogy	Symbolic/Number Analogy	Figural Analogy	Semantic Classification	Symbolic/Number Classification	Figural Classification
Semantic Series	Number Series	Figural Series	Problem Solving	Word Building	Syllogistic reasoning
Numerical Operations	Symbolic Operations	Trends	Space Orientation	Space Visualization	Venn Diagrams
Drawing Inferences	Punched hole/pattern- folding&un-folding	Figural Pattern- folding & completion	Indexing	Address Matching	Date & city matching
Classification of center codes/roll numbers	Small & capital letters/ numbers-coding, decoding & classification	Embedded Figures	Critical Thinking	Emotional Intelligence	Social Intelligence

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier 1: General Awareness

This section will test candidates’ awareness of the world around them. The test will also include questions related to India and its neighboring countries, especially pertaining to:

Sports
History (Ancient, Medieval, and Modern)
Culture
Geography
Economics
General Polity
Indian Constitution
Scientific Research

The official notification doesn’t prescribe the aforementioned topics but they have been compiled after an analysis of previous year trends.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier 1: General Awareness
SSC CGL History Syllabus	SSC CGL Geography Syllabus	SSC CGL Economy Syllabus	SSC CGL Biology Syllabus
Ancient History (Harappan Civilization Vedic Culture,) Medieval History and Modern History (British Rule and Gandhian Era)	India and Neighboring Countries, Solar System, Famous Sea Port, Rivers, Important Institution.	Budget Related Terms, Laws Of Demand Supply, Inflation, Sectors Of Economy, International Organizations	Plant Kingdom, Animal Kingdom. Human Body and Diseases, Environmental Studies
Polity	Physics	Computers	Chemistry
Indian Constitutions, Duties and Facts Related To President, Chief Minister, Prime Minister, CAG, Panchayati Raj System, Indian Parliament.	SI Unit, Light and Reflection, Electricity, Wave Optics, Motion	Basic Facts About Computers, Recent Developments in Technology	Properties Of Substances,Chemical Reactions, Properties Of Gasses, Chemistry In Day To Day Life.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier 1: Quantitative Aptitude

The Quantitative aptitude section tests Quantitative skills along with logical and analytical skills of the candidates. The questions in the quants paper will be designed to assess candidates’ ability to appropriately use numbers and number sense of the candidate. It will test the sense of order among numbers, ability to translate from one name to another, sense or order of magnitude, estimation or prediction of the outcome of computation, selection of an appropriate operation for the solution of real-life problems, and knowledge of alternative computation procedures to find answers. The questions would also be based on arithmetical concepts and relationships between numbers and not on complicated arithmetical computation (The standard of the questions will be of 10+2 level).

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier 1: Quantitative Aptitude
Percentage	Ratio & Proportion	Square roots	Averages	Interest	Profit & Loss
Discount	Partnership Business	Mixture and Alligation	Time and distance	Time & Work	Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra & Elementary surds
Graphs of Linear Equations	Triangle and its various kinds of centers	Congruence and similarity of triangles	Circle and its chords	tangents	Angles subtended by chords of a circle
common tangents to two or more circles	Triangle, Quadrilaterals	Regular Polygons	Circle	Right Prism	Right circular cone
Right circular cylinder	Sphere	Hemispheres	Rectangular Parallelepiped	Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base	Trigonometric ratio
Degree and Radian Measures	Standard Identities	Complemen tary angles	Heights and Distances	Histogram	Frequency polygon

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier I: English Comprehension

In this Section, SSC will check Candidates’ ability to understand correct English, their basic comprehension and writing ability, etc. would be tested. (The questions in components A, B & D will be of a level in line with the essential qualification prescribed for the post. For graduation).

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier I: English
Spellings Correction	Error Spotting	Reading Comprehension
One word Substitution	Synonyms-Antonyms	Sentence Rearrangement
Phrases and Idioms	Fill in the Blanks	Sentence Improvement
Sentence Correction	Active Passive	Cloze test

SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Syllabus Tier 2

The second stage of the SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Exam is Tier II. It will be conducted in Online mode, the same as Tier I, and the questions asked in Tier 2 will be of objective type. The sections under the SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Tier II have been mentioned in the Table below. There is only 1 paper in SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Tier II. In Paper I there are three sections.

Paper

Paper I

Session I

Section I:

Module I -Mathematical Ability

Module II – Reasoning and General Intelligence

Section II: Module I- English language and comprehension

Module II- General Awareness

Session II

Section III- Computer knowledge

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier II Section 1 Paper 1 - Mathematical Abilities

The Mathematical Abilities section consists of topics similar to the quantitative aptitude of Tier I level. However, the level of questions asked in SSC CGL tier 2 will be higher than those in tier I. The topics expected to be asked in this section includes:

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier II: Mathematical Ability
Number Systems	Computation of Whole Numbers. Decimal and Fractions Relationship between numbers.
Fundamental arithmetical operations	Percentages Ratio and Proportion Square roots Averages Interest (Simple and Compound) Profit and Loss Discount Partnership Business Mixture and Alligation Time and distance Time and work.
Algebra	Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra and Elementary surds (simple problems) and Graphs of Linear Equations.
Geometry	Familiarity with elementary geometric figures and facts: Triangle and its various kinds of centers Congruence and similarity of triangles Circle and its chords Tangents Angles subtended by chords of a circle Common tangents to two or more circles.
Mensuration	Triangle Quadrilaterals Regular Polygons Circle Right Prism Right Circular Cone Right Circular Cylinder Sphere Hemispheres Rectangular Parallelepiped Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square Base.
Trigonometry	Trigonometry Trigonometric ratios Complementary angles Height and distances (simple problems only) Standard Identities like sin(2) + cos(2)=1 etc.
Statistics and probability	Use of Tables and Graphs: Histogram Frequency polygon Bar-diagram Pie-chart; Measures of central tendency: mean Median Mode standard deviation; calculation of simple probabilities.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier II Section I Paper I - Reasoning and General Intelligence

This section will contain both verbal and non-verbal type questions. These questions will check the candidate’s on-the-spot critical thinking skills. Candidates must stay calm, understand the question carefully and then go on to solve these problems. The table below contains all the topics that are expected to be asked in the examination from the Reasoning and General Intelligence section.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier II: Reasoning and General Intelligence
Semantic Analogy	Symbolic operations	Symbolic/ Number Analogy	Trends	Figural Analogy
Space Orientation	Semantic Classification	Venn Diagrams	Symbolic/ Number Classification	Drawing inferences
Figural Classification	Number Series	Punched hole/ pattern-folding & unfolding	Semantic Series	Figural Pattern Folding and completion
Critical Thinking	Problem-Solving	Emotional Intelligence	Word Building	Embedded figures
Social Intelligence	Coding and decoding	Numerical operations	Figural Series

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier II Section II Module 1- English Language & Comprehension

Questions in this section will be designed to test the candidate’s understanding and knowledge of the English Language and will be based on error recognition, fill-in-the-blanks (using verbs, prepositions, articles, etc), Vocabulary, Spellings, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Synonyms, Antonyms, Sentence Completion, Phrases and Idiomatic use of words, etc. Questions related to passages and comprehension can be expected to be asked in the examination. (The standard of the questions will be of 10+2 level).

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Syllabus for Tier II: English Language and Comprehension
Active/ passive voice of verbs	Spelling/ detecting misspelled words	Spot the error
Conversion into direct/ indirect narration	Idioms & phrases	Fill in the blanks
Shuffling of sentence parts	One-word substitution	Synonyms
Shuffling of sentences in a passage	Improvement of sentences	Antonyms
Cloze passage	Sentence Structure	Comprehension passage

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector 2022 Syllabus for Tier 2 Section II Module II -General Awareness

Questions in this these sections are designed to test the candidates’ general awareness of the environment around them and its application to society. Questions are also designed to test candidates’ knowledge of current events and daily matters to check their knowledge of their surroundings. The test will also include questions related to India and its neighboring countries, especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General policy, and scientific research.

SSC CGL ASO Tier II Syllabus Paper Section 3- Computer Proficiency

Computer Basics	Organization of a computer, Central Processing Unit (CPU), input/ output devices, computer memory, memory Organization, back-up devices, PORTs, Windows Explorer. Keyboard shortcuts.
Software	Windows Operating system including basics of Microsoft. Office like MS word, MS Excel and PowerPoint, etc.
Working with the Internet and emails	Web Browsing & Searching. Downloading & Uploading Managing an Email Account e-Banking.
Basics of networking and cyber security	Networking devices and protocols, Network and information security threats (like hacking, virus, worms, Trojans, etc.), and preventive measures.

SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Exam Pattern

The SSC CGL Tier I Examination has 4 sections – Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude & English Language.
Each Section consists of 25 questions and each question carries 2 marks which makes it a total of 50 marks per section.
The total time duration is 60 minutes.
There is a provision for Negative Marking of 0.50 marks per wrongly answered question.
The Total marks can hence be calculated as –
Total Marks = 2 marks for Correct Answer and 0.50 marks deducted for each wrong answer

Check the table below for more information regarding Income Tax Inspector Tier 1 Exam Pattern here:

Subject	Total Questions	Total Marks	Duration
General Intelligence & Reasoning	25	50	60 minutes (For VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy: 80 minutes)
General Awareness	25	50
Quantitative Aptitude	25	50
English Language	25	50
Total	100	200

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector Tier II Exam Pattern

The candidates who qualify for the Tier I will become eligible to appear for the Tier II examination. Check the detailed exam pattern for Income Tax Inspector Tier-2 below.

Tier	Paper	Session	Subject	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Time allotted
II	Paper-I:	Session-I (2 hours and 15 minutes)	Section-I: Module-I: Mathematical Abilities Module-II: Reasoning and General Intelligence.	30 30 Total = 60	180	1 hour (for each section)
			Section-II: Module-I: English Language and Comprehension Module-II: General Awareness	45 25 Total = 70	70*3 = 210	1 hour (for each section)
			Section-III: Module-I: Computer Knowledge Module	20	20*3 = 60	15 Minutes (for each module)
		Session-II (15 minutes)	Section-III: Module-II: Data Entry Speed Test Module	One Data Entry Task	–	15 Minutes (for each module)
	Paper-II		Statistics	100	100*2 = 200	2 hours (for each Paper)
	Paper-III		General Studies (Finance and Economics)	100	100*2 = 200	2 hours (for each Paper)

The Tier-II will be held in separate shift(s)/ day(s).
There are 3 papers in the SSC CGL Tier II.
Paper I is Compulsory for every post.
Paper-III will be for only those candidates who are shortlisted in Tier-I for Paper-III i.e. for the posts of Assistant Audit Officer/ Assistant Accounts Officer.
Paper-II will be for only those candidates who apply for the posts of Junior Statistical Officer (JSO) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

SSC CGL Inspector of Income Tax Salary Structure

The salary of SSC CGL Income-Tax Inspector 2024 is governed by the 7th Pay Commission. Candidates are employed in the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) of the Indian Government. The table below has the salary of the SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector 2024 employees.

SSC CGL Income Tax Inspector 2024 Salary
Pay Level	Pay Level-7 (Rs. 44,900 to Rs. 1,42,,900)
Basic pay	Rs. 44,900
Grade Pay	Rs. 4600

The overall Income Tax Inspector Salary Structure comprises of various components, including grade pay, allowances, deductions, and prerequisites. In addition to the standard fixed pay, the Income Tax Inspector receives several perks and benefits, such as:

1. Dearness Allowance (DA) on Total Pay above
2. Transport Allowance (TA)
3. House Rent Allowance (if not provided with quarters)
4. Petrol Allowance
5. Limited Mobile Bill
6. Other Allowances

It’s noteworthy that an Income Tax Inspector’s postings are on a PAN India basis, offering a wide range of experiences and exposures across the country.