India's Highest Tax Paying Businessmen

Asim Ghosh
Asim Ghosh is the President and CEO of Husky Energy, one of Canada’s largest integrated oil and natural gas companies that is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Husky produced an average of 313,000 barrels (49,800 m³) of oil equivalent per day in 2011. The former CEO of Vodafone Essar paid an advance tax of 75.4 million in the year 2009-2010 as he sold his stake in Vodafone Essar for 329 crore in the year 2009.

Indrani Patnaik
The wife of former congress President Niranjan Patnaik's elder brother Dipti Ranjan Patnaik paid an advance tax of 75 crore for the year 2009-2010 and is listed as the third highest taxpayer list in India. She had paid income tax of 40 crore (400 million) in 2008-09. Indrani Patnaik Mines was in the news a few years ago over cases of illegal mining that were filed against it and led to a huge uproar in the Orissa State Assembly.