Harry Styles is highest-contributing celebrity and Erling Haaland the youngest entry in Sunday Times tax list
Tim Martin, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Erling Haaland and Mo Salah are among the UK’s 100 biggest taxpayers, according to new rankings.
The billionaire brothers behind the gambling firm Betfred topped the Sunday Times 2026 tax List. Fred and Peter Done paid £400.1m in tax, about half of which relates to gambling duty from their betting shop empire.
Martin, who founded the Wetherspoon’s chain, is eighth with a personal contribution put at just shy of £200m.
JD Wetherspoon paid more than £1m tax a pub with the chain of 794 venues pumping £837.1m into the public finances – from levies including corporation tax, business rates, slot machine duty and VAT. Martin owns 26.7% of company shares.
