Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:45am ET by Newsdesk
Adele pays herself over £7 millionAdele rewarded herself with a multi-million pay day last year. Following the success of her record-breaking album ‘21’ and a string of hit singles, including ‘Rolling In The Deep’, ‘Someone Like You’ and ‘Set Fire To The Rain’, Adele’s company – Melted Stone – made a net profit of almost £14 million in 2013. Melted Stone’s company accounts show that Adele paid herself a dividened of £7,199,000 in 2013 whilst in 2012 she was paid £2,086,214. The ‘Skyfall’ songstress also paid over £5 million in tax last year. Adele has previously spoken out about being in the 50% tax-paying bracket. She told Q magazine: “Trains are always late, most state schools are s*** and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh?” The British singer topped the Sunday Times Rich List of young musicians last year as her fortune totalled £30 million.
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