Reacting sharply and swiftly to a front -page report in a daily which mentions Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor among the highest tax payers in the country, Amitabh Bachchan says, "I'm surprised by the report and I've serious doubts about its authenticity.

Because my name isn't mentioned anywhere among the top -most tax payers of the entertainment business. This gives the utterly false impression that I make pots of money and don't pay up enough taxes."

As a matter of fact, as the Big B clarifies he tops among the tax payers of the country.

"If you look at the figures for the year 2006-2007, you'll see Amitabh Bachchan, that's yours truly, has paid 14.15 crores, Abhishek Bachchan has paid 4.75 crores, from our company AB Corp Ltd where all the earnings are mine, we've paid 1.44 crores.

And now that Aishwarya is part of the family approximately 5 crores pf tax money have come from her. This makes it a total of 25.3 crores. And yet they've put Hrithik Roshan as the top most tax payer! Even if you take my tax figures individually I still top."

Incontestably the Bachchans are the highest tax- paying family of the country.