The Income Tax department recently conducted IT raids at Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap’s residence as the officials found discrepancy and manipulation of income during their searches at various places.
They even revealed that there was a huge suppression of income compared to the actual box office collections.
Taapsee has now reacted to the IT raids for the first time. On Saturday morning, the actor took to Twitter to share three tweets where she mentioned that the IT department is searching for three things “The keys of the “alleged” bungalow that I apparently own in Paris. Because summer holidays are around the corner”.
The second tweet read, “2. The “alleged” receipt worth 5 crores to frame n keep for future pitching coz I’ve been refused that money before (sic).”
The last tweet from Taapsee read, “3. My memory of 2013 raid that happened with me according to our honourable finance minister.” In the end, she joked, “P.S- “not so sasti” anymore (sic).”
Reportedly, Anurag Kashyap and Taapsee Pannu, who are currently in Pune for film shooting were quizzed by the officials separately for about 6 hours at a hotel.
Income Tax Department in its official statement earlier had said: “Evidence of cash receipts by the leading actress amounting to Rs 5 crore has been recovered. Further investigation is going on. Apart from this, non-genuine/bogus expenditure to related concerns by the leading producers/director having tax implication of about Rs. 20 crore has been detected. Similar findings have been made in the case of the leading actress also.”
As per initial reports, a discrepancy of around Rs 300 crore has been uncovered during the probe. The company officials reportedly failed to explain this discrepancy. “During the search, evidence of huge suppression of income by the leading Film Production house compared to the actual box office collections has been unearthed. The company officials have not been able to explain the discrepancy of around Rs. 300 crore,” the official statement by the Income Tax department said.
