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Source: observer.guardian.co.uk

Nov 08, 2009

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Publicity over £55,000 fee paid to Iranian actor Mohammad Reza Golzar for three days' work leads to threats of tax crackdown

Being paid £55,000 for three days of playing an angel is nice work, if you can get it. But the princely sum commanded by Mohammad Reza Golzar, one of Iran's top actors, for the role in a film called Democracy in Bright Daylight has prompted threats of a tax crackdown following controversy over the rising fees being shelled out to the country's film stars.

The threat, from the powerful culture and Islamic guidance ministry (Ershad), came after publicity surrounding Golzar's fee led to a leading film critic, Reza Ostadi, naming and shaming other well-remunerated actors on nationwide television. Ostadi read out a list of 27 who were paid sums of up to £60,000 per film. Such fees are considered astronomical in Iran and are at odds with the hairshirt egalitarianism promoted by the country's Islamic revolutionary ideology. Producers and directors have seized on Ostadi's list to warn that actors' earnings are fuelling rising production costs and

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