'Crocodile Dundee' Star Paul Hogan Can't Leave Australia

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Aug 26th 2010 07:00AM

Actor Paul Hogan, star of the 'Crocodile Dundee' movie trilogy, has been barred from leaving Australia until he pays a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said on Thursday.

The 70-year-old actor, who currently lives in Los Angeles and first gained a public profile in the United States with his cheerful offer to "slip an extra shrimp on the barbie" in Australian tourism TV ads in the mid 1980s, arrived in Sydney last week to attend the funeral of his mother, Florence Hogan.

Hogan was served with an Australian Taxation Office order after landing last Friday that prevents him from leaving Australia until he settles a multimillion dollar tax bill, lawyer Andrew Robinson said.

"These may not be the appropriate circumstances to effectively make Paul a prisoner of Australia," Robinson told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

The order was "absolutely devastating" for Hogan's wife, 'Crocodile Dundee' co-star Linda Kozlowski, and their 12-year-old son Chance, both of whom remained in Los Angeles, Robinson said.

Australian tax and crime investigators have fought Hogan in a five-year legal wrangle in Australian and U.S. courts to investigate evidence that he used offshore bank accounts to conceal earnings since his low-budget 'Crocodile Dundee' movie became an international hit in 1986.

Tax authorities last month claimed Hogan owed tax on 38 million Australian dollars ($34 million) in allegedly undisclosed income. The exact tax bill has not been disclosed.

Hogan has denied any wrongdoing and disputes the tax bill. He has never been charged with tax evasion.

The Australian Tax Office refuses to comment due to a policy of not discussing individual cases.

Robinson said lawyers are negotiating with tax authorities to have the order revoked.

"Those discussions are ongoing. We are hoping that they will result in an arrangement that will allow him to go back to his wife and son," Robinson said, without elaborating.

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Thursday 26 August

By Gib

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Pay the TAX!!!!!!!!!

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By ruthiemk

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Hey, Paul Hogan doesn't look too bad for his age.

By Jackie

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Maybe it's the Vegemite:)

By AJ

Who cares??!!

By Heyes

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Now this is funny!!.... Perhaps he should wrestle crocs and pay off his debt!!:-)

By Sharon

Australia, PLEASE keep him! He cannot act and his skin looks like crocodile skin...YIKES

By WhyNot

Sharon, you are a shallow moronic imbicile that should be banned from the internet!

By Aukake

What do you look like? How much money have you made? If you look better then he and have made more money then he has...ok if not..shut up!!

By kelley

I wonder what you will look like at 70? All I know is that he made a lot of people laugh. For his age he looks great.

By GEORGE CLOONEY

STEDMAN is her mate? Uh, excuse me....GAYLE is her MATE! Good try attempting to keep the secret a secret. Pathetic

By Donna

I will never get why these rich people cant pay their taxes.
Its not as if hes broke, and if he is, it is his own fault.
Everyone knows he was huge in his movies. And where there are movies, the actors make millions. Its easy to set aside one of the many millions, and pay your bills like the rest of us working stiffs do.

By Susan

I don't get it either.... I'm hoping he does not expect sympathy from those of us who do pay our taxes.
I'd be willing to bet they'd even cut him a deal with a payment plan and a downpayment to get him out of there.

By Cutie

I get it...they have to pay for those too lazy or dumb to get a job. Does Australia have illegals??

By iviethodaurum

Lets see,get on a boat and sail away.....gheeez,that was hard.

By garyrjas

goodaye mate

By WOODY

AND THEY SEEMED LIKE SUCH NICE FELLAS!

By ead17

Slip an extra shrimp on the barbie? Sounds like something they do up in West Hollywood.

By robert

no.....that's slip an extra shrimp IN Barbie.