Adele in five years broke a record of £100million after £14.5million tax is taken off

Superstar Adele has earned a whopping £100million over the past five years - but she has been forced to fork out £14.5million in tax.

Last year the global chart-topper handed over £4million to the Inland Revenue, while in 2014 she paid £2.5million.

Her successes in 2013 saw her landed with a huge £6million tax bill, while she paid out £2million in 2012 and 2011.

The Londoner has been vocal about her tax burden in the past, saying: 'I use the NHS, I can't use the public transport any more.

'Trains are always late, most state schools are s*** and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid - are you having a laugh?'

Last year Adele, 28, earned more than £84,000-a-day from her music empire – Melted Stone Ltd – which turned over £30million.

The company cleared a £16million profit after costs were deducted - but the mother-of-one had to pay a quarter of it - £4million - straight to the tax man.

The Labour supporter does not use investment schemes to reduce her tax burden.

She asks her accounts to pay tax owed after deductions for staff wages and operating costs have been taken out, but does not seek to reduce her bills in any other way.

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