{"id":84206,"date":"2025-07-22T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84206"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:19:14","slug":"shock-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/22\/shock-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In shocking news this morning, a wealthy man - Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates, who used to be senior tax partner of Clifford Chance, one the most prominent and highest earning firms of solicitors in London - <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/7a16aee9-fd4d-4dcd-ba82-14750ca454ad?j=eyJ1IjoiMzg2MngifQ.BtGFxOI5-M4G1pNh2-UHzDC3odMBbiU2U1-Bo3txH-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has found that wealth taxes won\u2019t work<\/a> using all the arguments usually used by the wealthy that have been created for them by the economists that they sponsor:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665-550x592.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665-550x592.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665-279x300.jpeg 279w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665-768x827.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665-1427x1536.jpeg 1427w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665-372x400.jpeg 372w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1665.jpeg 1562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up, the Pope is a catholic, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he's right about the implementation details, which is why <a href=\"https:\/\/taxingwealth.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I propose other ways of achieving this goal<\/a>, but the rest is total trickle-down nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise there then.<\/p>\n<p>I bet Labour loves him. This man, who has never been a friend of tax justice, goes down really well with the likes of Rachel Reeves, and staggeringly, he has always been a Labour Party member, despite his long-held views that opposed just about everything I have ever stood for on taxation issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In shocking news this morning, a wealthy man &#8211; Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates, who used to be senior tax partner of Clifford Chance,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/22\/shock-news\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,97,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tax-justice","category-wealth-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84213,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84206\/revisions\/84213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}