UK's top 100 taxpayers revealed - and who has contributed the most to a record £5.7bn?

Anthony Joshua, JK Rowling and Mo Salah person been named among the UK's 100 biggest taxpayers.

The billionaire brothers down gambling elephantine Betfred topped the rankings of The Sunday Times Tax List 2026 for the archetypal time, surpassing musicians, entrepreneurs and sports stars.

Fred and Peter Done, who founded the Warrington-based concern successful 1967, paid retired an estimated £400.1m successful taxation implicit the past year, according to the yearly list.

It came aft their taxation measure climbed by astir fractional from £273.4m a twelvemonth earlier.

Financial trading entrepreneur Alex Gerko ranked 2nd connected the database with £331.4m successful tax, followed by hedge money brag Chris Rokos, who paid £330m.

Elsewhere, Harry Styles was among the caller entries to the list, successful 54th place, paying £24.7m successful tax.

The erstwhile One Direction member-turned-solo creator is acceptable to merchandise his 4th workplace medium successful March.

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Billionaire businessman Mike Ashley ranked ninth connected the list, with a publication of £175m successful tax, portion entrepreneur Sir James Dyson and Nik Storonsky, a co-founder of the payments steadfast Revolut, besides featured.

Two footballers besides joined the database for the archetypal time, with Manchester City's Erling Haaland appearing successful 72nd spot with an estimated taxation outgo of £16.9m and Liverpool's Salah believed to person a measure of £14.5m, successful 81st place.

Haaland, 25, is the youngest idiosyncratic to look successful the taxation list.

Harry Potter writer Rowling ranked 36th connected the database with a measure of £47.5m, and instrumentalist Ed Sheeran 64th, with a £19.9m taxation payment. Boxer Anthony Joshua ranked 100th, paying £11m.

Wetherspoons laminitis Sir Tim Martin, 70, ranked eighth successful the database with a idiosyncratic publication of £199.7m.

The database showed that the apical 100 taxpayers handed implicit a full of £5.758bn worthy of tax, up from £4.985bn a twelvemonth earlier.

Many connected the list, including the Done brothers, paid much taxation aft changes to corp taxation rates and different taxes by the authorities successful a bid to enactment higher payment spending.

Robert Watts, who compiled the list, said: "This is an progressively divers list, with Premier League footballers and satellite celebrated popular stars lining up alongside aristocrats and concern owners selling pies, pillows and babe milk.

"This twelvemonth there's been a large leap successful the magnitude of taxation we've identified - mostly due to the fact that of higher corp taxation rates."

Six taxpayers diagnostic connected the database contempt leaving the UK implicit the past year, amid reports of affluent individuals moving to debar higher taxes nether Labour, oregon owed to non-dom presumption being removed.

These included Wren Kitchens laminitis Malcolm Healey and sports promoter Eddie Hearn.