Income Tax department clears air on inspection at actor Vishal's office

CHENNAI: The Income Tax officials’ visit to actor Vishal Krishna’s office had nothing to do with his film “Mersal” and was a routine procedure to check for any TDS violations, department said on Tuesday.

It said exercise to check tax violations had been on since the beginning of the current fiscal throughout Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Such inspections had been done “in more than 400 cases in the region” and it was in the same context that the actor's office was inspected yesterday,” an official release said. Vishal is also head of Tamil Film Producers Council and General Secretary of South Indian Artistes’ Association.