Five Tata companies -- Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Sons and Tata Chemicals -- put together paid taxes to the tune of 3,298 crore (Rs 32.98 billion).
Tata Steel is the tenth highest taxpayer, paying Rs 1,889 crore (Rs 18.89 billion) in taxes in 2007-08.
It had paid a higher amount of Rs 1,938 crore (Rs 19.38 billion) during 2006-07.
Image:Ratan Tata, chairman of one of India's largest conglomerates Tata Group, delivers a speech during the 100th annual general meeting of group subsidiary Tata Steel in Mumbai. | Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
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