{"id":822097,"date":"2025-01-26T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/largest-taxpayers-in-construction-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T06:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:12:02","slug":"largest-taxpayers-in-construction-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/largest-taxpayers-in-construction-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest taxpayers in construction revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Construction bigwigs feature prominently in the latest annual update of the UK’s top taxpayers.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times <\/em>Tax List 2025, which covers tax paid by individuals and families, includes 15 names from the construction sector (see table, below), up from 12 the year before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In all, sector figures accounted for \u00a3540.3m of the \u00a34.99bn in tax paid by the top 100.<\/p>\n

There were four new entries this year from the construction world. Eight others saw their ranking rise and only three fell.<\/p>\n

The highest-ranking payer was JCB owner Lord Bamford and his family in 11th<\/sup> place, having paid \u00a3121.3m \u2013 almost double the previous year\u2019s \u00a367.8m.<\/p>\n

Bloor Homes owner John Bloor was 17th<\/sup> with \u00a3121.3m, down from 9th<\/sup> place in 2024 when he paid \u00a3118.1m.<\/p>\n

The top taxpayer among contractors was John Murphy and family with \u00a365.1m, ahead of Tim Wates and family (\u00a350.2m).<\/p>\n

The Kirkland family, owners of Bowmer & Kirkland, were ranked 49th<\/sup> with \u00a322.9m in tax paid.<\/p>\n

Joanne Conway and family rose 11 places in this year\u2019s list to 52nd<\/sup> (\u00a322.5m), but the biggest surge came from the Bailey family. The NG Bailey owners rose 39 places to 56th<\/sup> with \u00a321.1m.<\/p>\n

Lower down the list, Keltbray executive chairman Brendan Kerr paid \u00a314.7m in tax, putting him in 77th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n

Among the other entries from the construction sector this year, Martin Flannery and family of Flannery Plant Hire re-entered the Sunday Times <\/em>list in equal 50th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n

MV Kelly founder John Kelly and family entered the list in 59th place, one ahead of Ed Sheeran.<\/p>\n

Derek Keys, founder of a firm of digger auctioneers, joined the list in 84th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n

The other new entrant was Chris Woolridge and family, who own steel galvanising specialist firm Wedge Group. They paid \u00a312.1m in tax and were ranked 88th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0analysis was based on accounts filed up to 10 January and includes corporation tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax, income tax, employer\u2019s national insurance tax, and gambling and alcohol duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Construction representatives in Sunday Times Tax List 2025<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name<\/td>\n2025 rank<\/td>\nTax paid 2025 (\u00a3m)<\/td>\n2024 rank<\/td>\nTax Paid 2024 (\u00a3m)<\/td>\nRanking change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lord Bamford and family<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n121.3<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n67.8<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Bloor<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n85.6<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n118.1<\/td>\n-8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Murphy and family<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n65.1<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n48.2<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tim Wates and family<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n50.2<\/td>\n=27<\/td>\n43.6<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steve Morgan<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n44.5<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n36.2<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Kirkland family<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n22.9<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n21.5<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Martin Flannery and family<\/td>\n=50<\/td>\n22.7<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joanne Conway and family<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n22.5<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n18.5<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Bailey family<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n21.1<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n10.8<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Kelly<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n20.8<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brendan Kerr<\/td>\n=77<\/td>\n14.7<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n11.9<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derek Keys<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n13.2<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Woolridge and family<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n12.0<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David and Lucy Wernick<\/td>\n89<\/td>\n12.0<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n13.5<\/td>\n-7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dai and Richard Walters<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n11.5<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n14.2<\/td>\n-15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Source: Sunday Times Tax List 2025
N\/A denotes new entry<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Construction bigwigs feature prominently in the latest annual update of the UK’s top taxpayers. The Sunday Times Tax List 2025, which covers tax paid by individuals and families, includes 15 names from the construction sector (see table, below), up from 12 the year before. In all, sector figures accounted for \u00a3540.3m of the \u00a34.99bn in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1537,2014],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-822097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-largest","8":"category-taxpayers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}