Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Easyjet



The founder of the successful Luton-based budget airline, who no longer runs it. He is listed as a Jersey bank client. Inherited wealth from Greek-Cypriot shipowner father. He has described himself as "British by birth". His spokesman says, however: "Sir Stelios is not – and never has been – resident in the UK for tax purposes. He has been a Monaco resident since the mid-1980s (ie when he was a teenager) when his family relocated there from Athens."

Sir James Dyson, vacuum cleaners



The inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner is worth up to £2.5bn and owns the £15m Dodington Park estate in Wiltshire. He set up a 1985 onshore children's trust to hold 30% of company shares. His spokesman said: "The trust was dissolved and the shares distributed to the beneficiaries." His wife and his three children, Sam, Jake and Emily (who runs a fashion shop in Notting Hill, west London), also appear as past beneficiaries of a offshore trust in the Channel Islands. The spokesman said that trust was never actually used, had no assets and had not avoided tax. In 2010, Dyson transferred shares offshore to Malta, another tax haven. Following criticism, the move is being unwound. The firm said: "Dyson is a UK owned company, and paid taxes of over £100m in 2013. The administrative companies referred to in Malta will soon be inactive." [see footnote]



Laura Ashley, fashion



The celebrated late designer moved to St Tropez at one point to avoid UK tax. Her late husband, Bernard Ashley, then set up an offshore trust in 1985, after Laura's death, and after the company went public. Five years later he sold out to foreign investors for £60m. The children appear to be named as beneficiaries. Neither their daughter Jane nor son Nick, who runs a menswear shop, wanted to comment.

Sir Donald Anderson, shipowner



The late Old Etonian chairman of the shipping line P&O passed wealth down the generations. His Sir Donald Anderson Trust records beneficiaries as four grandchildren, Caspar and Barclay Fox, Tamara Onslow and Fenella Dernie. Caspar, now a 42-year-old tax lawyer in London, declined to comment.

Khoo Kay Peng, Malaysian tycoon



Worth up £400m and named as a Jersey offshore client. In Britain, he occupies the £30m Rossway estate near Berkhamsted. Currently owns 40% of the Laura Ashley fashion business. His divorce battle in the UK courts with former beauty queen Pauline Chai scandalised Mr Justice Holman this year, who said it was a piece of "appalling litigation" at phenomenal expense. "Neither of them currently pays any English taxes whatsoever." He will be a non-dom. Peng declined to comment.

Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets



Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members. He declined to comment, as did his daughter Andrea Shelley, who occupies Thimbleby Hall in Yorkshire and has had held shares worth more than £300m. Other big shareholders are his niece and her husband, Susan and Nigel Pritchard, who relocated for a while to Jersey in 1999.

Martin Read, software



Was Britain's highest-paid executive the year he received £27m as head of the Logica software firm 1993-2007. The Jersey trust was a Furbs (funded unapproved retirement benefit scheme) to provide him with extra money. A government efficiency adviser, he told us: "This trust has been set up for the perfectly legitimate purpose of providing pension benefits, has been operated with full visibility to HMRC at all times and is not the subject of any dispute with HMRC. I have paid income tax on all the pension contributions made by Logica." He said he was "a UK resident taxpayer who has been meticulous in all my dealings with HMRC".

Edward Lumley, insurance



More than £100m in Jersey trusts benefits at least 40 Lumley, Hemphill and St Aubyn relatives, many living in the UK. Henry Lumley, in Bagshot, Surrey, told us: "My grandfather was a successful Australian businessman who ... set up discretionary trusts for his assets and his successors in 1940. These trusts ... comply with UK law and returns are made to HMRC in accordance with treaties set up between the two countries. If beneficiaries receive income from the trusts, they have and always will return them in their annual tax returns in the normal way and are subject to UK tax."

Bruce Gyngell, TV



An Australian tycoon, the late Bruce Gyngell founded TV-am and set up Jersey trusts for his wife and children – one of whom, David, was in the headlines this year for brawling with James Packer on Bondi Beach. His widow, Kathy, works for the rightist Centre for Policy Studies. She said: "I am choosing not to comment."

Rothermere family, Daily Mail



A Lady Rothermere trust is recorded in Jersey. It appears to refer to the late Lord Rothermere's second wife, Maiko Lee, of Korean nationality. She did not respond to our invitations to comment. Rothermere's son Jonathan by his first wife inherited the Daily Mail, also through a Jersey trust, and a Bermuda-registered offshore entity. Jonathan is estimated to be worth £760m. He has not denied claiming tax concessions as a "non-dom", on the grounds that his father lived in Paris. He resides at Ferne Park, a stately home in Wiltshire built for him by architect Quinlan Terry.

Bernie Madoff, fraudster



The names of Bernie Madoff and of MSI (Madoff Securities International), the London end of his financial operation, are among the most unexpected entries in Kleinwort Benson's Jersey records. Madoff is serving 150 years in a federal prison for masterminding a £38bn fraud – one of the biggest ever on Wall Street. Shortly before his downfall in 2008, MSI funded one of his more notorious purchases – a £4m yacht, called the Bull, to be registered in his wife's name and moored on the French Riviera.

• This footnote was added on 21 July 2014 and amended on 22 July. The Channel Islands offshore trust referred to in the section on Sir James Dyson was set up by Orbis Trustees Guernsey Limited. Kleinwort Benson purchased Orbis after the trust was wound up in 1999. Dyson is not and never has been a client of Kleinwort Benson.