Bollywood Stars Highest Taxpayers
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Our top Bollywood stars are amongst the highest taxpayers. Bollywood is certainly going the corporate way. Multi-film deals, stars and their contracts with film studios, multiplexes getting in box office figures – corporate Bollywood have finally arrived. Our top Bollywood stars are amongst the highest taxpayers. 2007 surely seems to belong to Akshay Kumar as he has been reported as the highest Bollywood tax payer of the year. The actor has paid a whopping Rs. 26 crores ($6.5million) this year in taxes as he has signed a couple of big budget projects. The estimate of the tax figure paid by the top seven stars is expected to touch the Rs 100 crore-mark, which indeed will give a boost to the Income Tax Department. Last year, Amitabh Bachchan paid a whopping Rs 15.59 crore in taxes. This was followed by Hrithik Roshan who paid Rs.15.10 crore. Shah Rukh Khan shelled out Rs 14 crore in taxes.