On Sunday, the well-known British newspaper The Times released the 2022 tax report for the UK region.
According to statistics, British male star Ed Sheeran (Ed Sheeran) paid a total of 12.5 million pounds in taxes in accordance with the law in 2021, and he is the entertainment industry artist with the highest contribution to the British public finances in the entire tax report list.
Ed Sheeran released his latest album ,=, last fall, which topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, and sales soared.
In addition, the number one single "Permission to Dance" of the Korean boy band BTS is also a song written by Ed Sheeran, who can get a 45% revenue share of the song.
In the end, Ed Sheeran's various incomes were calculated and paid a total of 12.5 million pounds in taxes, surpassing all the people in the British entertainment industry and becoming the entertainment artist with the highest contribution to public finances.
However, even if Ed Sheeran pays £12.5 million in taxes, it is not enough to get him into the list of the top 50 British taxpayers in the UK, and industrial entrepreneurs are still the main source of BRITISH tax revenue.
In all of 2021, the largest taxpayer in the UK will be the founder, majority shareholder and co-CEO of UK bookmaker bet365, British billionaire businessman Denise Coates, who pays £481.7 million a year.
According to people familiar with the matter, the existing welfare system in the Uk is typical of "high taxes and high welfare", the UK charges "high taxes" on the rich and high-income groups to increase public finances, and uses public finances to subsidize the poor and provide "high welfare" for poor low-income families.
In a sense, the local rich guarantee the basic livelihood of the local poor, so the local people attach great importance to the behavior of public figures in paying taxes according to law, and resist the moral corruption of tax evasion and tax evasion.
In fact, no matter in any country is the same, paying taxes according to law is glorious, tax evasion and tax evasion are shameful! Tax evasion and tax evasion artists must be banned!