NRI status: Aishwarya under I-T lens

Written by Writer on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

NRI status: Aishwarya under I-T lens

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MUMBAI: She may have won over the world with her beauty but couldn’t succeed against the . A decade-old claim of being a non-resident Indian during her has come back to haunt the big-screen diva Bachchan, whose fee is reportedly in the region of per film.

Income , central-I, has dragged the actress to the against her claim that her Miss World income of £50,000 was non-taxable as she was an NRI.

On Monday, the actor, through her counsel Percy Pardiwalla, opposed the commissioner’s appeal, but a bench headed by Justice thought it fit to admit it.

The Bachchan bahu, who was then at the start of her career, had, in her I-T returns for the assessment year 1996-97, declared a total income of .14 .

But in 2000, during a on her premises, the I-T department found that her passport showed her to be a resident as against her claim of being an NRI during the assessment year. She was out of India for only 92 days and not for 186 days as she “falsely claimed”, said the , and three years later (in 2003) reopened the proceedings against Rai under the .

In 2004, I-T authorities ordered that the income of 50,000 pounds (equivalent to approx Rs 26 ) she had received for winning the must be added to her income and she be taxed accordingly. The tax amount was approximately Rs 14 which, IT officers say, with interest would now amount to almost .

Rai challenged the 2004 order and got partial relief that November. But she filed another appeal before the Income Tax () challenging the department’s power and moved to reopen her assessment. The had, in October 2007, ruled in her favour, deleting the addition of her income from her “block assessment proceedings”.

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