Dan Neidle

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:30 UTC

Updated polling evidence from Tax Policy Associates and WeThink shows that half the public doesn't understand a basic principle of income tax: the way that tax rates apply to income above a threshold. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/07/05/h...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

I've put together a dozen tax reform suggestions for the next Chancellor: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/07/04/a...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:56 UTC

A fake Instagram account in my name (with underscore) is messaging people who know me. Don’t know what the scam is, but please watch out… and if people on Insta could report it, I’d be really grateful.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 07:14 UTC

Seems implausible given the rules that limit shareholder interest deductibility to 30% of EBITDA

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

Thanks! If he does sue me I might crowd fund for charity, but not for my legal costs… wouldn’t feel right when I’d have more £ than most people donating.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoider, escape a £14m penalty.
He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel and sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here’s our report: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/19/b...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

Stamp duty is often 5-10% here, sometimes more. So I don’t think that’s right.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

Reform UK has published its manifesto. They plan tax cuts which they say will cost £70bn; however our analysis shows that they've miscalculated, and the actual cost will be at least £93bn. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/17/r...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

The Lib Dems just published their manifesto, with a surprisingly ambitious £27bn of tax rises. However around £19bn of this looks questionable. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/10/2...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 09:00 UTC

Stamp duty is a terrible tax. The Tories want to abolish it for most first time buyers. But the evidence shows that cutting stamp duty increases house prices. There is, however, a solution: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/09/s...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 08:45 UTC

New investigation: how a conspiracy theory makes £500k a month from the vulnerable

taxpolicy.org.uk/matrix_freedom

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 09:06 UTC

The Green Party says it will raise £50bn in tax from the "richest". But their proposal will probably end up affecting half of all households. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/07/g...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 11:11 UTC

I won’t be talking much about the general election tax debate, because it's irrelevant. When total tax receipts approach a trillion pounds, and OBR tax receipts forecasts are lucky to get within £30bn of the true figure, arguing about £10bn here or £10bn there is pointless.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 10:14 UTC

Did Jeremy Hunt avoid SDLT in 2018? Some people on social media are convinced that he did. We've analysed the transaction and believe it's clear that he didn't.

taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/03/t...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 10:11 UTC

The ISC then gave the survey results to the Daily Mail without this vital context, and the result was a highly misleading headline. The ISC should be ashamed.

taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/02/i...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 10:11 UTC

The Independent Schools Council commissioned a survey on parents' responses to VAT on private school fees. It was statistically meaningless, and the authors of the report say they told this to the ISC. 1/2

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 09:35 UTC

I wrote about this here: conservativehome.com/2024/03/04/d...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 09:34 UTC

I hope these reports are wrong. The “British ISA” is a terrible idea that encourages bad investments, and will mostly send those investments outside the UK. www.cityam.com/general-elec...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 09:47 UTC

Labour and the Tories have both said they can raise £6bn from cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion. How plausible is this? taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/05/27/i...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 08:14 UTC

However this tool looks really useful. I’ll check it out!

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 08:13 UTC

Did I? Don’t remember! But haven’t had a problem with internet archive before, and I save critical stuff locally

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

The SRA has just referred Nadhim Zahawi's solicitor to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for his attempt to silence me with a false assertion of confidentiality.

Some thoughts on what this means for the solicitor, for SLAPPs, and for Zahawi: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/05/10/n...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 21, 2024 at 09:55 UTC

Our report is here, with the details of the polling, and our view of what it means

taxpolicy.org.uk/public_under...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 21, 2024 at 09:54 UTC

Our polling suggests that 50% of people believe that, once you hit the higher rate threshold, the 40% higher rate applies to all your earnings.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 21, 2024 at 09:54 UTC

We’ve just done some opinion polling, courtesy of WeThink, which shows that half the public doesn't understand a basic principle of income tax: the way that tax rates apply to income above a threshold.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

Thanks - looks awful, but have to stay in my lane and focus on tax/legal stuff

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

"I've been accused of being a misogynist Tory shill and a Labour puppet."

Piece by me in the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

How, for CGT purposes, you can be "living together" even if you're not living together. A short piece on the dangers of trying to interpret tax legislation you're unfamiliar with. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/04/12/l...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

New Freedom of Information Act disclosures reveal that, when we identified this new problem, the Post Office's only concern was the PR impact. And the Post Office continues to cover-up the reasons for its failures.

taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/04/04/p...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

The Post Office's incompetent compensation process left thousands of postmasters with large tax liabilities. When we revealed this, the Government forced the Post Office to fix the situation - but the Post Office did so far too slowly…

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 12:18 UTC

The Post Office has finally stopped intimidating postmasters into silence; but it’s too late. More here on the "without prejudice" scandal: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/30/p...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 08:32 UTC

The weird campaign that says you're legally entitled to stop paying your tax to protest the war in Gaza, and its weirder roots in the racist US far-right:

taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/19/f...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

People didn’t stop doing tax avoidance schemes because of a sudden ethical conversion. They stopped doing them because it became clear they were going to fail very expensively.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

You may well know more than me, as I’ve never worked in the Big Four and there’s no reason I’d see a scheme like that. But seems mad, given the inevitable fate of such schemes in the courts.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

I don’t think either part of that is true, at least not in the recent past

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

If anyone has questions for me on frankly anything, I'm doing a Reddit "ask me anything" at the moment: www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 19, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

Another shocking abuse of libel law: a woman making credible rape accusations, silenced by her attacker. The lawyers are basically working for free; there's now a crowdfunder to cover the cost of a medical report.

Please consider donating. www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 17, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

How I accidentally blundered into an invisible campaign to censor the internet: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/02/17/t...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 16, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

It's bizarre and very unfortunate, caused by a bad drafting error back in 2014. It should be fixed asap.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 16, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

We've an exclusive report on a loophole in the Lobbying Act. A consultant lobbying Ministers on behalf of UK clients has to register their activity. The loophole means that a consultant lobbying only on behalf of foreign businesses or governments does not. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/02/16/l...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 12, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

What happens when tax avoiders are caught?

The latest on Less Tax for Landlords: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/02/12/l...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 10, 2024 at 10:16 UTC

I’ve just published a short article with some charts demonstrating the incoherence of CGT policy over the past few years. And I return to the question of how CGT should change.

taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/02/10/m...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 10, 2024 at 10:16 UTC

UK capital gains tax has suffered from constant fiddling by politicians, with one shining moment of rationality in 1988 followed by a succession of changes that were never properly thought out.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 10, 2024 at 10:16 UTC

Rishi Sunak has now published his “tax return” (scare quotes because it’s just a one page summary), and so some people are discovering for the first time that we tax capital gains on shares at a much lower rate than we tax employment income.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 27, 2024 at 10:43 UTC

So it turns out Mogul Press fraudulently abused DMCA takedown notices to remove our criticism of their deceptive business practices taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/27/m...

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