Salman Khan pays Rs 44.5 crore, beats Akshay Kumar to become highest tax-payer

Salman Khan has beaten his contemporaries, including Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan, to become the highest advance taxpayer for the financial year 2016-17. According to an income tax report collected from data of the advance tax paid by top 10 industry folk till March 2017, Khan, whose blockbuster hit ‘Sultan’ (2016) earned over Rs 500 crore worldwide, has paid tax of Rs 44.5 crore.

Given that the amount he paid in the last fiscal year was Rs 32.2 crore, Khan’s annual income, it is estimated, has grown over 39 per cent in one year.