article_snippet.sent: Celebrity residents and good commuter links to the City have made Esher in Surrey the country’s number one income tax hotspot, research shows.
article_snippet.sent: Those living in the Esher and Walton parliamentary constituency – home to Gary Lineker, Frank Lampard, Mick Hucknall and Chris Tarrant – have seen average income tax bills jump by 8 per cent in a year.
article_snippet.sent: Those living in the Esher and Walton parliamentary constituency – home to Gary Lineker, Frank Lampard, Mick Hucknall and Chris Tarrant – paid the most income tax in 2012/13, with bills averaging £16,900, almost four times the national average of £4,363, a study by accountancy group UHY Hacker Young found.
article_snippet.sent: Celebrity residents and good commuter links to the City have made Esher in Surrey the country’s number one income tax hotspot, research shows .
article_snippet.sent: Like Esher, the other top five highest income tax-paying constituencies – Chesham and Amersham; Windsor; Beaconsfield; and Dorking and Leatherhead – are in the Home Counties and within an hour’s commute of London.
article_snippet.sent: Only one of the top ten constituencies, Tatton in Cheshire, is outside the South-East.
article_snippet.sent: Covering Alderley Edge, Wilmslow and Knutsford, the area is another celebrity favourite, attracting residents such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Rio Ferdinand and Andy Cole.
article_snippet.sent: Those living in the Esher and Walton parliamentary constituency – home to Gary Lineker (left) and Frank Lampard (right)
article_snippet.sent: The other top five highest income tax-paying constituencies include Windsor (castle above) and Beaconsfield .
article_snippet.sent: Mark Giddens, of UHY Hacker Young, said: 'The combination of a relatively high density of high earning celebrities and easy transport links to the City of London for those working in financial services, mean that many parliamentary constituencies across the South-East, and Esher in particular, are a real hotspot for the taxman. '
article_snippet.sent: Whether residents of Esher will relish the title of most highly income-taxed area of Britain is doubtful.
highlights_snippet.sent: People also paid more in Windsor, Beaconsfield, Chesham and Amersham .
  