Britain’s 100 biggest taxpayers revealed - features names behind Betfred, Home Bargains and Revolut

The Sunday Times has revealed the individuals and families that paid the most in tax contributions in the last 12 months. 

The names featured in the top 100 paid a combined total of £5.758bn of tax in the last year, which is up from £4.985bn in 2025.

The eighth edition of the Tax List features figures from the worlds of music and arts, high finance and the high street, as well as billionaire aristocrats and self-made entrepreneurs. 

Gambling founders Fred and Peter Done of Betfred top the rankings, with an estimated contribution of £400.1m, up from £273.4m a year ago. The brothers founded Cheshire-headquartered Betfred in 1967. 

At the start of January, the group posted a pre-tax profit of £129m and EBITDA before operating exceptional items of £293.8m, on turnover of £1.64bn for an extended 18 month period.

Robert Watts, who compiled The Sunday Times Tax List, said: “The Sunday Times Tax List features household names as well as some of our economy’s hidden heroes, quietly successful entrepreneurs who have set up companies employing hundreds of people and plugging vast sums into the public finances. This is an increasingly diverse list with Premier League footballers and world famous pop stars lining up alongside aristocrats and business owners selling pies, pillows and baby milk. 

“This year there’s been a big jump in the amount of tax we’ve identified — largely because of higher corporation tax rates. All of the 100 individuals and families who appear delivered at least £11m to the Exchequer over the past year. Fourteen of the entries paid at least £100m.”

According to the research carried out, the top 100 list combined paid 15.5 per cent more than a year ago. 

Forty-five of the year’s 100 were found to be paying more than in 2025, thirty paid less, and two paid the same. 

The main reason for this tax increase is corporation tax jumped from 19 per cent to 25 per cent in 2023-24, and a higher tax rate on dividends. 

Construction is the best represented sector of the economy, accounting for ten of the entries. Eight names come from finance, including a new entry from Russian-born Nik Storonksy, founder of banking service group Revolut. 

Outside of the twenty-one London-based entries, the other top tax payers are from the South East (11), North West (14), Yorkshire and Humber (11),  Scotland (9), West Midlands (8), 7 South West (7), East Midlands (6) and East of England (6). 

Four come from Wales, two are from Northern Ireland, and one is from the North East.

Robert Watts, added: “One in nine of the people who make the Tax List are no longer listed as resident here in the UK, instead choosing to live in Monaco, Dubai, Switzerland, Cyprus, Portugal, the United States or the Channel Islands. 

"Clearly the Tax Listers who have moved offshore are still delivering huge sums to HM Treasury through their businesses, but the Chancellor would no doubt be raising even more money from these people had they chosen to stay put and remain liable for personal tax here. 

“It’s hard to see how an exodus of the super rich from these shores is anything to cheer for those who care about the future of our public finances.”

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The full Sunday Times Tax List naming the 100 biggest taxpayers can be found here.