The former head of UK tax at Clifford Chance says he is now free to expose wrongdoing and unfairness
Dan Neidle has thrice refused to say how much money he earned in his previous career as a partner at the “magic circle” law firm Clifford Chance. “I’m just not going to tell you,” Neidle, 49, says over flat whites at Compton, a restaurant and cocktail bar in Clerkenwell, London. Asked for the fourth time why he won’t say, given that he now promotes himself as a transparency campaigner, he confesses: “I’m embarrassed. I’m so embarrassed about how horribly overpaid I was that the only person who knows how much I was paid is my wife.”
Neidle, who gave up his job as the head of UK tax at Clifford Chance last year in order to work full-time as a fair tax campaigner, says anyone who really wants to know how much money he made can look it up on Google.
Questioned the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi in a saga that ended with the Conservative party chair being sacked.
Campaigned against and highlighted the unfair treatment of subpostmasters in the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal
Suggested that Premier League football clubs may have avoided paying £250m in tax.
Called out retailers failing to pass on the cut in the so-called tampon tax to customers.
Forced the Solicitors Regulation Authority to warn the profession against pursuing “abusive litigation” designed to “harass or intimidate” their opponents into silence.
