Business man Mahesh gordhandas garodia is highest tax payer of India for the last quarter of 2009 paying Rs 20 crores.

Sachin tendulkar is the highest taxpaying sportsperson from India edging past Team India captain Dhoni paying about 1.5 crores. Sehwag and Dhoni paid 1crore each, Harbajan singh paying 70 lakh, Saurav ganguly paid 90 lakh are among others to figure in the top 500 taxpayers list, also joining the bandwagon is the man behind IPL extravaganza lalit modi who figures in the top 50 with a whopping deposit of 3 crores!!!
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Among celebrities from bollywood topping all are Akshay kumar and Aamir khan who paid 4.5 crore. SRK and Hrithik Roshan have dished out 2 crore while Big B fails to figure in the top 500 list while his son and daughter-in-law do figure in the list.
Aishwarya Rai is way ahead of all other heroines from bollywood paying 1 crore. Other bollywood stars to figure include salman khan, Ranbir Kapoor, saif ali khan, Rani mukherjee, Kajol, Deepika padukone.
Shreaya ghoshal was the only playback singer to figure in the list paying 51 lakhs.
IT czar Nandan nilekani also figures in the list at number 11 paying 9 crore