Former Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint must pay more than £1.8 million (€2.2 million) in tax in the UK after losing a legal battle with HM Revenue and Customs.

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint's appeal against HMRC imposing a £1.8m tax bill on him was dismissed, after a Tribunal upheld a Beatles clause

Former Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint must pay more than £1.8 million in tax after losing a legal battle with HM Revenue and Customs. Mr Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the franchise, was ordered to pay the sum in 2019 after HMRC launched an investigation into his tax return from the 2011-12 tax year.

A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book has sold for £36,000. Christine McCulloch bought the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for her son Adam in the 1990s. She said she paid about £10 for the copy from a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 and had no idea the same book would be worth thousands of pounds, 30 years later.

During the peak of Potter mania, a woman named Christine McCulloch bought a copy of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' for her son Adam in 1997, reported BBC.

A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, bought for £10 in 1997, sold for £36,000 at auction, surprising its owners.