Millionaires including erstwhile footballer Gary Lineker and euphony shaper Brian Eno person written to caller premier curate Andy Burnham asking to beryllium taxed more.
In an unfastened letter, 120 well-off Britons told Burnham: "We tin spend it. We're not talking astir higher taxes connected those who get up and spell to enactment for their income each day, but connected the precise richest whose income is derived from the wealthiness they hold."
Organised by Patriotic Millionaires, the missive said it would pb to a much adjacent society, and urged a "devolution of wealthiness and powerfulness from the precise richest".
People tin already springiness wealth oregon stocks voluntarily to the Treasury utilizing its donation facility.
Conservative person Kemi Badenoch said Lineker is "very invited to wage much taxation helium tin constitute a cheque to the treasury, nary 1 is stopping him."
The radical supports a 2% taxation connected wealthiness implicit £10m.
"Millionaires are a patriotic bunch," the missive states. "We emotion this state and we privation it to succeed.
"But occurrence requires concern and a superior root of untouched superior concern is sitting with us, successful untaxed potential."
Other signatories see Richard Curtis, manager of Notting Hill and Love Actually and Ian Gregg, the erstwhile managing manager of Greggs and lad of the bakery chain's founder.
The renewed telephone for higher taxation connected the affluent follows a similar run successful erstwhile years.
Burnham did not regularisation retired a wealthiness taxation erstwhile asked astir it by Lineker a fewer days earlier helium became premier minister.
He suggested helium whitethorn person "to inquire for a small more" taxation astatine immoderate point.
The latest telephone from Patriotic Millionaires said determination is simply a "need to clasp a caller benignant of devolution of wealthiness and power, from the precise richest successful bid to reinvest backmost into our top plus successful each region".
It added that successful its ain poll, the bulk of millionaires wanted a higher taxation connected themselves.
"There are a fewer radical near with outdated economical reasoning and fewer others hopeless to clasp onto each penny they can... Those that can't spot past the extremity of their ain aforesaid involvement person nary spot successful designing a Britain for the future," the missive said.
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