Hogan: 'ATO has no case against me'

Paul Hogan has hit back at the Australian Taxation Office for ordering him to stay in the country until his tax dispute is settled.

The Crocodile Dundee actor, who usually lives in Los Angeles with his wife Linda, was served a departure prohibition because the ATO believes that he owes them millions of dollars in unpaid tax - an allegation he vehemently denies.

Hogan told Channel Nine: "I actually came out here at the request of the Australian Crime Commission at my own time and expense to assist them with their inquiries.

"If I was a tax evader, which I'm not, I must be the dumbest one in the world, because they gave me five years' notice that they'd seized every bit of paper that my tax advisers and lawyers and accountants [had] and said, 'We're after you.'

"I know they've got no class, and I know they're absolutely desperate to nail some high-profile character with money to justify the expense to the taxpayer.

"I want people to say, 'Let him go because he didn't do anything.' I want not to get special treatment, not to get picked on because I'm high-profile and supposedly rich."