Ed Sheeran pocketed £10 million last year after epic music sales
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mirror.co.ukPop star Ed Sheeran paid himself £10million last year, figures reveal. Accounts for the singer’s firm show he had a bumper 12 months from song-writing and music sales.
Turnover leapt from £32.6m to £48.1m, while the profits rocketed 53% to £36.4m. It allowed the 29-year-old artist, whose hits include Perfect, to pay himself a £10m dividend on top of the £17m he collected in 2018.
The performer’s company paid nearly £7m in corporation tax last year. It is almost half what one of online giant Amazon’s biggest UK-based firms paid in corporation tax in the same period, despite turnover of nearly £2.3billion.
The accounts for Ed Sheeran Limited do not include cash made from gigs. The documents say: “Going forward, the company’s turnover is
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