Ranbir Kapoor, Kapil Sharma and Aamir Khan came in close by shelling out crores in advance taxes.
Virendrasingh Ghunawat | Posted by Tatsam Mukherjee | October 6, 2016
Actor Salman Khan has proved to be a real Sultan of Bollywood, by paying the highest advance tax numbers, in this financial year.
Data of advance taxes paid till September 2016 i.e. half-yearly, available with Indiatoday.in indicates - Dabangg Salman is leading in the list of actors by paying an advance tax of Rs 16 crore, as compared to Rs 11 crore paid during the same period, last year.
Film Sultan released worldwide in July 2016 grossed approximately Rs 584 crore and became the fourth highest grossing Indian film of all time.
For the second position, two actors paid the same amount of advance tax i.e. Khiladi Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan. Both actors paid Rs 11 crore, respectively, till September 2016.
Surprisingly, last year - Akshay was leading with a sum of Rs 18 crore (ahead of Salman) till September 2015, but Hrithik was nowhere seen even in the top 10 highest taxpayers list.
Rockstar Ranbir Kapoor is on the third position, who paid Rs 7.8 crore as advance tax till September 2016 end, compared to Rs 4 crore paid in the last year.
Interestingly, comedian Kapil Sharma entered in the top list of Bollywood taxpayers by beating none other than Aamir Khan.
Till September 2016, Sharma paid an advance tax of Rs 6.06 crore, may be to prove his point as mentioned in his Twitter account that "he pays Rs 15 crore of IT returns every year since last five years"
This time, Mr Perfectionist - Aamir was happier by paying advance tax of Rs 3.7 crore, as compared to Rs 4.5 crore last year, till September end.
The department declined to give the advance tax numbers of three actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.
Senior IT official told Indiatoday.in that these actors must have paid their advance tax numbers till September 2016, "but these numbers could not be revealed, as all three are under investigation by the department. Bachchans' are getting probed in Panama Papers leak case and Shah Rukh for his investment in Dubai and other Gulf countries".
Other numbers in hand are : Kareena Kapoor paid advance tax of Rs 2 crore, compared to Rs 2.2 crore last year for the same six months period.
Shahid Kapoor paid an advance tax of Rs 1.75 crore for this half year.
Most surprisingly amount is Rs 20 lakh paid by Ajay Devgn as advance tax. May be for the reason that Devgn is contesting with IT dept and has already made an appeal for the questionable amount of Rs 6 crore.
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