Actor Vijay partially evaded income tax for 5 years: Officials


Chennai, Oct 2 (IANS): Income tax officials, who raided the properties of Tamil superstar Vijay here on Wednesday and Thursday, have revealed that the actor has been partially evading payment of tax for the last five years.

The taxmen also raided the houses of actresses Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nayanthara and producers P.T. Selva Kumar and Shibu Thameens and financier Ramesh of Vijay's latest Tamil releases "Puli".

"All of them including Vijay have been paying tax but not the full amount. The total tax evaded amount comes to about Rs.25 crore," a source from the income tax department told IANS.

"In our raid, cash amounting to Rs.2 crore and gold worth Rs.2 crore was recovered," he said.

The actresses too have not been paying tax fully for the last two years.

A total of over 30 places were raided in Chennai, Cochin and Hyderabad.

  

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  • stan, dubai

    Fri, Oct 02 2015

    As per Indian tax laws in the case of the offence, where the amount exceeds Rs 50 lakh, a defaulter will get imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years.In this case will the Government will punish the people or drag this case for another 50 years or our lawyers will make money by applying bail???

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