Posted by Nikhil @ 11:32 am April 15, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, News
Bollywood Stars seems to have beaten the economic slowdown. Akshay Kumar becomes the highest tax payer for the year 2008-09 with a tax of Rs 1 crore being payed to the IT Department.
Akshay now becomes the highest and beats the king khan in top tax payee list of bollywood stars. Shahrukh Khan who was the top tax payee last year marginally lost the race with Akki this year.
Akshay Kumar also was the most poupular bollywood star last year beating all the khan’s aside. Last year he gave many blockbusters and become the highest earner of the bollywood.
The top ten bollywood stars together paid Rs 107 crore as taxes while the same set had paid Rs 90.90 crore in 2007-08 when the economy was booming.
The other two khans - Salman and Saif were at number three and four, having paid Rs 14 crore and Rs 8.6 crore respectively.
Among the bollywood Jodi’s Saif-Kareena are together the highest tax payee with Kareena paying Rs 3.7 crore. The duo clearly beat the Bachchans - Abhishek and Aishwarya - who stood at No 8 and No 6 respectively.
Yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khann continues to be among the top Bollywood tax payers, coming at no. 5 paying Rs 6.87 crore leading ahead of Big B (Rs 1.25 crore) who slipped to 10 number from last year 7th position.
Here is the list of top bollywood tax payers :
Akshay Kumar - 31.0
Shah Rukh Khan - 30.9
Salman Khan - 14.0
Saif Ali Khan - 8.6
Rajesh Khann - 6.9
(*figures in crores)
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