Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has lost his legal battle for a £1m tax refund.
The judge stressed it was not part of HMRC’s case that Grint was involved in tax avoidance.
The actor is calculated to have earned around £24m from the Potter franchise playing the character Ron Weasley, best friend of the boy wizard.
A tax tribunal judge rejected the actor’s appeal against an HM Revenue and Customs block on him using a change in accounting dates to shield his earnings from the higher 50% tax rate.