Dubai: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan seems to be buying peace with the Income Tax department.
Samajwadi Party (SP) workers attacked the department's office in Lucknow after hearing that Bachchan had been served tax notices. Fans and SP leaders alleged the actor was being harassed. Bachchan denied this.
"I don't think so. The I-T department is a very respectable government agency and they are doing their job," said Bachchan, when asked if he thought that the Income Tax department was targeting him or carrying on a campaign against him.
"My job is to respond to them and that is what I am doing," the actor said.
Bachchan was also asked to prove his status as a farmer, for a proposal to buy 20 acres of land in Maval taluka near Pune. His move to purchase land, which is only available to farmers was questioned under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Land Act, 1963.
In January 2006 the IT department refused Bachchan rebate allowed to artistes under the IT Act for the income he earned for anchoring Kaun Banega Crorepati - citing that anchoring was not acting.
On March 16, Bachchan had to make a visit to the Aykar Bhavan in Mumbai regarding a long pending tax assessment matter. Normally high profile assesses do not personally go to the IT department unless they are summoned.
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