mumbai bollywood actor rani mukherji believes in numerology when it comes to accepting or making payments the amounts paid or received are mostly divisible by three a reply by her accountant to the income tax it department has statedthis reply is part of the documents filed by the actor in the bombay high court rani has challenged income tax appellate tribunals addition of rs 9 lakh to her income received for her 2001 film bas itna sa khwaab hai hc on july 1 admitted ranis appeal and will decide if the addition is based on presumptionsa diary found by the it department during a search at her residence on september 26 2000 show two entries of rs 9 lakh and rs 1 lakh for her role in the anil kapoor starrer nayak when the assessing officer sought an explanation her accountant said rani mukherjis family believes in numerology this must have been seen from the record that most of the payments and receipts are always divisible by 3 thus they accept amounts in 3 6 9 12 15 21 36 etc and also make payments in the same mannerrani entered into a contract with surya movies for rs 51 lakh for nayak on june 7 2000 she received a signing amount of rs 10 lakh but as they believe in numerology they received rs 9 lakh and rs 1 lakh on the same day therefore two separate entries were made in the diary the department also seized cash and jewellery during the searches the assessing officer ao held that theory of numerology is an afterthought and showed examples where rani received payments such as rs 95000 for hello brother and rs 151000 for hadd kar di aapne the ao made an addition of rs 10 lakh to her income received for nayak but the commissioner to whom she appealed rejected the department plea the tribunal too agreed with the commissionerin bas itna sa khwaab hai starring abhishek bachchan rani had shown rs 27 lakh as remuneration received the diary showed that she had asked for rs 48 lakh as remuneration and received the contract amount of rs 36 lakh the ao questioned why the amount was not changed in the diary if there was a reduction and added rs 21 lakh to her income the commissioner of it appeals on june 23 2008 also confirmed the addition of rs 21 lakh ranis appeal before the itat said rose movies combine on may 18 2001 had sought to reduce the remuneration to rs 27 lakh due to a crisis in the film industry but itats order stated there was no date mentioned in the letter and the reply requesting for reduction of remuneration and the same has been accepted seems unnatural as film stars are known to haggle for money to the last pie the tribunal observed that when her father was so meticulous in maintaining the accounts as well as the dates there is no explanation why the amount of