'Crocodile Dundee's Paul Hogan: 'Tax probe was ridiculous'

Paul Hogan has lashed out at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) again.

The Australian actor, who is best known for his role in Crocodile Dundee, branded the organisation's unsuccessful attempts to find him guilty of evading tax payments between 2005 and 2010 as "ridiculous".

Hogan told Macquarie Radio that he is furious at people criticising his decision to return to Australia for his son's upcoming nuptials, saying: "Some bureaucrat says I'm a flight risk and it's stupid. I have to get permission to come back to the country to attend my son's wedding.

"The tax office set out to make some money and they failed at that... they just want [to] make people really think about their tax, and put the fear of God into the Australian taxpayers.

"I think that's terribly wrong. Are we supposed to be scared of the b**tards? Of course we're not, it's a public service they are supposed to be providing."

Hogan also said that the experience has "turned his life around".

The actor labelled the ATO as "a-holes" earlier this year, saying that they wasted "millions" on their false accusations towards him.

In December last year, Hogan said that he wanted to be "exonerated" by the ATO because they had "black-marked" his career and given him a reputation as "Mr Tax Evasion".

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