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Two jewels of Bollywood are busy shooting a documentary produced by the Income Tax Department to disperse the message of tax compliance. The entire documentary is narrated in the voice of Om Puri and spans around 20 minutes in length. The documentary will also cast Priyanka Chopra.

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Aamir and Akshay have been selected for the documentary so as to project themselves as the role model for the people as they are the highest taxpayers from Bollywood. Akshay paid an advance tax of Rs 9 crore in March this year, taking his total advance tax payment in the current financial year to Rs 18 crore. Aamir with an advance tax payment of Rs 12 crore stands second.

‘The star personality will depict themselves as the youth and spirit of the country and they pay their tax responsibly’ an IT official involved in the project said. He further gave a slight idea of the documentary that it chronicles the journey of taxation in the country.’ Initially, a 20 minute version of the documentary will be released and later an eight minute version will come into picture’, he added.

The documentary will be unveiled by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during the first ever Income Tax day celebrations on July 24 in New Delhi. The speakers at the event will include Narayan Murthy and Azim Premji.

The 150^th anniversary of the Income tax day to mark 150 years of taxation of the country is going to be celebrated by the Income Tax Department. This would also be the last year for the Income Tax Act, 1961, as the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC) will over write it from the next financial year.

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