Death and tax are forever; will pay my dues: BigB
January 09, 2013  11:26
A day after the Supreme Court asked actor Amitabh Bachchan to respond to a petition from the Income Tax department, the actor said on Wednesday that he is ready to pay the taxes due. 

The Income Tax Department had claimed that the superstar owed to it Rs 1.66 crore as taxes on the income he earned through his show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' during 2001-02. 

"Death and I-T are the two things that are permanent in anyone's life. Whatever the court says, I will obey it," tweeted Bachchan.

The Bombay high court had dismissed an IT Department's plea on February 29, 2012 after which the department moved the Supreme Court. 

The IT Department in its petition had alleged that the actor in his returns filed for the assessment year 2001-02 showed his taxable income to be about Rs 3.23 crore while the Assessing Officer (AO) assessed the money earned by Bachchan to be around Rs 26 crore including the amount he had earned from the TV show.
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