Bet365 founder Denise Coates was the country’s largest taxpayer for the second year running, new figures show.
The betting website’s joint chief executive and her family, who are worth £7.166 billion, had a tax liability of £573 million last year, according to the annual Sunday Times Tax List.
Fred and Peter Done, the brothers behind bookmakers Betfred, came in third with a tax bill of £191.3 million, while inventor Sir James Dyson sat in sixth place having paid £115 million.
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Vacuum cleaner mogul Sir James, who topped the 2020 rich list with his £16.2 billion fortune, contributed £12 million more in tax than the year before.
Billionaire Coates family of Bet365 stump up half a billion in tax
The Coates family of Bet 365 have topped the list of taxpayers this year.
Gambling family Denise, John and Peter Coates of Bet365 have paid more than half a billion pounds (£573m) in tax this year, making them the top taxpayers in the UK.
Denise Coates founded Bet365 in 2000, and the tax paid by the family and the business is equal to the price of paying for 62,725 state pensions for a year.
Billionaire businessman Glenn Gordon was number two on the list of top taxpayers, paying £436.4m to the taxman, follow by Fred and Peter Done, who paid £191.3m.