1 STEPHEN RUBIN AND FAMILY
Sportswear
Tax liability: £181.6m
2018 wealth: £2,820m
Life for our largest taxpayer could have been very different. After school in Dorset, Rubin read law at University College London and hoped to become a barrister. At the age of 21 he changed direction, standing as the Liberal Party’s candidate for Streatham in the 1959 general election. Rubin was beaten into third place, with just 5,039 votes. His loss was the Treasury’s ultimate gain, for only after this drubbing did he join the family firm, the Liverpool Shoe Company, a footwear wholesaler founded by his parents, Berko and Minnie, in 1932. Over the years, he has turned the enterprise into a vast global fashion and sportswear conglomerate and is now grooming Andy,
The Sunday Times Tax List 2019: Britain’s top taxpayers revealed
The rich are often castigated for not coughing up their fair share in tax. Here we see that plenty of them do
The Sunday Times
Generation game: Rubin, left, is preparing his son Andy to take the reins
JAMES WILLMENT
