Britain's highest earner pays his taxes: £34m of them

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There's genuinely shocking news from the world of tax today. It has emerged that Britain's highest earner paid tax on his earnings in the last tax year. He made £84 million, and passed a stunning £34 million to the taxman, because he said he didn't want to cheat the system.

So why is this unusual enough to be news?
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