Lancashire based Home Bargains founder Tom Morris named as one of Britain's highest taxpayers

The 100 wealthy individuals or families revealed in this year’s Sunday Times Tax List paid a total of £5.758 billion of tax.

The eighth edition of the Tax List — released as millions of people have met the self-assessment deadline at the end of January — features figures from the worlds of music and arts, high finance and the high street, as well as billionaire aristocrats and rags-to-riches entrepreneurs.

Included in the top 100 highest paying taxpayers is even a businessman from Lancashire.

You can read the full rankings here: https://www.thetimes.com/article/tax-list-2026-uk-biggest-taxpayers-nqsjk2bvn

Who is this Lancashire businessman?

Tom Morris and his family have been named as the seventh highest paying taxpayers in the UK- paying £209.1 million in tax in 2026.

Now a resident of Lytham St Annes, Tom Morris founded Home Bargains back in 1976 in his hometown of Liverpool.

Home Bargains is now one of the UK’s most successful retailers, boasting more than 600 stores across the UK and employing over 27,000 people.

It is reported that Home Bargain’s is now worth £5 billion whilst Lytham resident Tom, 70, holds an additional £170 million in personal wealth.

In the Sunday Times Tax List 2026, it is reported Tom is now the richest ever Liverpudlian and last year he paid himself a £66 million dividend.

Who else made up the top 10?

You can see the full top 10 taxpayers in Britain 2025 below, including how much they paid, details about them and where their standings rate this year compared to last year.

Did anyone else from the North West make the Sunday Times Tax List 2026?

Yes, 14 businessmen and women from across the North West were named and you can read more about them here.

What has been said about the tax list?

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 £11 million to the Exchequer over the past year. Fourteen of the entries paid at least £100 million.

“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.”