Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Manchester City’s Erling Haaland are among the new entries on The Sunday Times Tax List 2026, which ranks the UK’s 100 biggest taxpayers each year, spanning figures from music, finance, and sport to the high street.
Located in the affluent 'golden triangle' of Cheshire, Salah, who earns a basic salary of £400,000 a week, landed at number 81 with a total estimated tax payment of £14.5 million.
Living in Alderley Edge, Haaland, earning more than £500,000 a week, ranked 72nd with a tax bill of £16.9 million.
The list credits The Sunday Times, which compiles the figures each year.
Both strikers’ totals include image rights and bonus payments, adding at least £10 million to their annual earnings.
The list also recognises other major contributors in the North West of England.
In Cotebrook, Sir John Timpson and family, the force behind the high street cobbler chain, placed 16th nationally for an estimated £86.7 million in tax.
Other North West names include Tom Morris and family of Home Bargains (seventh, £209.1 million), and Fred and Peter Done of Betfred (first, £400.1 million).
Robert Watts, compiler of 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 £11 million to the Exchequer over the past year.
"Fourteen of the entries paid at least £100 million."
Mr Watts said the list also reflects broader shifts in tax policy and economic trends.
He said: "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."
This year’s list saw 100 individuals and families contribute a combined £5.758 billion in UK tax, up 15.5 per cent from the previous year.
Each needed to pay at least £11 million to qualify for inclusion.
The Sunday Times Tax List factors in corporation tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax, income tax and some payroll taxes, as well as gambling and alcohol duties, according to the most recently filed company accounts.