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She may have won over the world with her beauty but couldn’t
succeed against the taxman. A decade-old claim of being a
non-resident Indian during her tax assessment has come back to
haunt the big-screen diva Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, whose fee is
reportedly in the region of Rs 6 crore per film. Income Tax
commissioner, central-I, has dragged the actress to the Bombay
High Court 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 S Radhakrishnan thought it fit to admit it. The