The Times published 100 biggest taxpayers in the UK list. The NES graduate Russian-born billionaire Alex Gerko taking the top spot.
Gerko, 42, who founded trading company XTX Markets in 2015, paid an estimated £487.4million in tax. This is up from the £117.4million he paid the previous year, when he ranked in tenth place.
Alex Gerko, who has been a British citizen since 2016, is according to The Times to be worth $2 billion now and began his career trading shares at Deutsche Bank.
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