Tax Payer No. 1: Akshay Kumar

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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 tax payer 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.

Surprisingly, yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khanna continues to be among the Bollywood’s big tax payers, coming in at No 5 in 2008-09 after paying Rs 6.87 crore—ahead of the Big B (Rs 1.25 crore)

Catch all whopping figures…only in this video.