Akshay Kumar pips SRK as top taxpayer

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Top Bollywood stars seem to have beaten the economic slowdown to post handsome growth in their advance tax payments.Not only did the top ten earners pay 17.7% more by way of taxes than in the previous year, but the industry has thrown up a new 'Hero No 1'.
Akshay Kumar, who paid a whopping Rs 31 crore to the I-T department, narrowly pipped Shah Rukh Khan (Rs 30.99 crore) to the title of Bollywood's highest taxpayer of 2008-09.
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 Ali - were at number three and four, having paid Rs 14 crore and Rs 8.6 crore respectively. As far as taxes go, Bollywood's Jodi No 1 was Saif Ali and his girlfriend Kareena Kapoor. Kareena was placed at No 7 with a deposit of Rs 3.7 crore in the tax kitty. The duo clearly beat the Bachchans - Abhishek and Aishwarya - who stood at No 8 and No 6 respectively.