The Beckhams, Sir James Dyson and Mike Ashley are among a string of high-profile earners praised for footing some of the largest tax bills in the land.
Also on the Sunday Times' list of the 50 biggest taxpayers in the UK were Stephen Rubin , the majority owner of JD Sports , and Denise, John and Peter Coates, owners of bet365.
But attention has now turned to some of Britain's biggest names who did not make the list.
Due to his residence in the low-tax Principality of Monaco, Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton does not appear on the list.
Earning a reported £40 million a year, the Mercedes driver is the UK's wealthiest sportsman.
He's not the only one.
Many of Britain's super-wealthy do not pay UK taxes because they have "non-dom" status, meaning that their permanent home is in another country.
Others may have registered their businesses offshore, and so pay vast sums of foreign taxes - but not enough domestically to make our top 50.
Lord Bamford, the owner of JCB, is one such. Of the £49.9m of tax the manufacturer paid last year, only £5.6m was UK corporation tax .
The remainder went to tax authorities in other countries.
It is not suggested those omitted from the list of top taxpayers engage in tax evasion or any other unlawful accounting practices.
A number of foreign-born celebrities who regularly feature in rich lists - such as Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich - do not figure in the hierarchy of UK taxpayers.
Others include Gopi and Sri Hinduja, Sir Len Blavatnik and David and Simon Reuben, all of whom list the majority of their business interests overseas.
The Sunday Times also listed José Mourinho as an absentee on the list.
However, it has been speculated that he will join the elite of UK taxpayers once tax has been filed on the sum he received after being sacked by Manchester United .
Retailer Sir Philip Green and entertainer Ed Sheeran , who both pay UK tax, were listed by the newspaper as "near-misses" from the top 50.