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Dan Neidle

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Founder, Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. More boring on LinkedIn

London, England

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Joined January 2014

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Dan Neidle

10 months

Our new report: 40% of all HMRC late filing penalties charged to people who don't earn enough to pay tax. 420,000 penalties charged to people on low incomes over the last four years. Article here: Thread follows

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Penalising the poor: 420,000 HMRC penalties charged to people who earned too little to pay tax....

Between 2018 and 2022, almost 660,000 people on low incomes received a penalty for not filing a tax return on time. Very few of them earned enough to pay any tax. But, by failing to submit a tax…

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@DanNeidle

Dan Neidle

2 years

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters to people investigating his tax affairs. The letters are designed to intimidate & say they're confidential and can't be published. One was sent to me. I am publishing it.

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The Chancellor’s secret libel letters

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters, drafted by expensive lawyers, to people investigating his tax affairs. The letters are designed to intimidate…

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1 year

Everyone is talking about the £3.7m of tax that Nadhim Zahawi "carelessly" failed to pay. Perhaps not enough people are talking about the cover-up.

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Worse than careless? The Zahawi cover-up.

Everyone is talking about the £3.7m tax which Nadhim Zahawi carelessly failed to pay. Perhaps not enough people are talking about the cover-up: all the times Mr Zahawi said his taxes were in order…

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1 year

Quick note to people reporting on Zahawi. If he did fail to pay £3.7m capital gains tax, that likely means he failed to report receiving ***£27m***. He presumably claimed this was merely “careless” (and so not tax fraud). How plausible is that?

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1 year

So @TimesRadio just asked me if I'm looking at the tax affairs of any other MPs. The answer is yes...

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1 year

I have a new definition of "chutzpah" - lying to the press, threatening them with libel action, and then complaining that their headlines were mean.

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1 year

I'm grateful to the Prime Minister for referring Mr Zahawi's actions to Sir Laurie Magnus. I have asked him to confirm that Sir Laurie's remit will not be limited to tax, but will also cover the conflict of interest and the manner in which Mr Zahawi responded to the allegations.

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Dan Neidle

4 months

The Post Office's compensation scheme is designed to minimise payouts. One postmaster received £15.75. That isn't a typo. I count nine ways the Post Office's HSS compensation scheme is rigged:

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1 year

There’s a very lengthy backstory to Nadhim Zahawi’s HMRC settlement, and lots of people have been asking me to summarise it. Here goes:

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1 year

The dam is beginning to break. Two segments on Today, and BBC News online now running the story.

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Nadhim Zahawi facing questions about tax payment

The ex-chancellor is under pressure over reports he will pay millions to settle a dispute with HMRC.

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1 year

New development. Guardian reporting Zahawi paid the tax plus interest, plus a 30% penalty - over £5m. 30% is at the lower end of what I'd expect. But the obvious point: people whose taxes are "fully up to date" don't pay 30% penalties to HMRC.

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Nadhim Zahawi ‘agreed on penalty’ to settle tax bill worth millions

Claim over sum imposed by HMRC likely to raise further questions for Conservative party chair

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1 year

Full credit to The @Independent for publishing, in full, the legal threats they received from Zahawi when running their original story in July.

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1 year

More questions. If Zahawi just made an innocent mistake and did his civic duty in cleaning it up… why did he threaten to sue people reporting on it? And try to keep those threats secret?

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The Chancellor’s secret libel letters

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters, drafted by expensive lawyers, to people investigating his tax affairs. The letters are designed to intimidate…

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1 year

#Zahawi update: his lawyers have written to me, denying that HMRC investigated him under COP 9, the procedure for investigating fraud. Since they are in such a helpful mood, I'm optimistic they'll answer some further questions. Full correspondence below:

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Dan Neidle

4 months

@MichelleMone If I’ve made any errors, please identify them.

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi founded YouGov, but took no shares in it. A Gibraltar company, Balshore Investments, did instead. Zahawi says this wasn't tax avoidance, but was his father injecting capital into the business. Here's my hunt for evidence. A very lengthy thread:

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4 months

I’ve written quite a lot about Barrowman & Mone. Finally a response. Doesn’t identify a single error of fact or law. Just an extended rant. Who is this supposed to persuade?

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Lady Michelle Mone

4 months

Dan Neidle has become obsessed about my husband’s business interests. It’s all a bit creepy. Who is he & who has decided he is the legal & moral authority on all things HMRC? Let me tell you. Mr Neidle is former Head of Tax at Clifford Chance, a huge global law firm…

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1 year

I'm going to leave the politics to others. The tax part of the Zahawi story, and therefore my role, feels over. But I wanted to sign off by correcting three takes which we’re going to hear a lot of, and I think are wrong.

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Three wrong takes on the Zahawi affair

I wanted to try and scotch what I think are three wrong takes on the whole Zahawi business. So a quick few words: No – Zahawi and his advisers made the tactical mistake of accidentally SLAPPing…

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9 months

The PPE cover-up. New evidence suggests Douglas Barrowman hid the ownership of a company that received £200m in PPE contracts and is now being investigated for fraud. A thread:

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1 year

Newspapers worried about being sued by Zahawi for libel should consider exactly how keen he will be to give full disclosure of his tax affairs, and then be cross-examined about them.

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1 year

When Zahawi’s lawyers threatened me, I was a senior tax lawyer with financial resources and legal and media contacts. He threatened other people who didn’t have those advantages (I know of at least three):

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Keith Kondakor,

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@AngelaRayner For years Mr Zahawi has it seems been sending out lots of SLAPP letters which had scared off anyone putting stuff in the public domain for the last 9 years. Thankfully @DanNeidle put enough of the bits together to overcome the SLAPP. Here are my letters from Mr Zahawi 2013 team.

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1 year

Sunak apologised for taking off a seatbelt for 30 seconds. Zahawi won’t apologise for failing to pay £3.7m of tax, lying about it, threatening to sue people who write about it, and then secretly admitting it all to HMRC and paying up behind our backs

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4 months

New report: we've traced 25 more Douglas Barrowman companies where they've unlawfully concealed the ownership. Thread:

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4 months

Douglas Barrowman's businesses made £100m+ mis-selling tax avoidance schemes on an industrial scale to people on modest incomes. We have new evidence that the schemes involved fraud against their clients and HMRC. Thread:

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Dan Neidle

4 months

Just to thank everyone for your support over the last few days - people I know but many, many, people I don’t. I’m deeply grateful.

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi update: I told his lawyers I'm going to accuse him of lying in his interview with @KayBurley . Amazingly, he's refusing to respond. It's the behaviour of someone with something to hide. A thread on what he said, why it's a lie, and what he might be hiding.

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1 year

We all make careless mistakes. Looks like Nadhim Zahawi once forgot to report £27m to HMRC. Let's crowdsource this. What's your most careless mistake?

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1 year

"The real problem here is libel law, and how it can be used by the powerful to silence people who criticise them" To me that’s the most important lesson from the Zahawi affair. Tax law worked fine. HMRC did it’s job. Libel law is broken.

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"I had no idea that a senior politician could say things that were just not true and take legal action or threaten to take legal action on that basis." Nadhim Zahawi used libel law to stop journalists from exposing his taxes, says @DanNeidle on #TimesRadio .

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4 months

The New European is suing Michelle Mone. It’s a brilliant move. Liars will keep making libel threats until the risks outweigh the benefit.

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Why we're suing Michelle Mone

This newspaper has instructed solicitors and Counsel and expects to begin the case against Mone early in the New Year

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1 year

Can anyone explain why an ethics enquiry prevents Mr Zahawi answering questions today? And is it the same reason why Mr Zahawi failed to answer my questions for the last six months?

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4 months

We've a new report: the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments to the postmasters it persecuted. That's outrageous. It's also unlawful - so the Post Office now faces an unexpected £100m tax bill. It may be insolvent.

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1 year

OMG. Zahawi seems to be saying he negotiated a settlement with HMRC whilst he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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@MichelleMone That's very odd, Michelle, because your husband's lawyers just told me they are "taking active steps" to update some of the incorrect entries we identified. Perhaps you should speak to them?

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1 year

Key question: Zahawi's statement and the reported settlement terms imply that Zahawi received around £27m in cash, didn't take advice, and didn't declare it. Is that correct?

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1 year

We've just launched a major report: between 2018 and 2020, almost 400,000 people earning less than £13k received a penalty for filing a tax return late. Very few had any tax to pay. But they were fined at least £100, and often thousands of pounds.

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4 months

The "truth" this statement misses: Barrowman lied about his connection to PPE Medpro. The company and its directors probably committed a criminal offence in not disclosing that Barrowman controlled it. Barrowman plausibly committed an offence himself.

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Lady Michelle Mone

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A statement from my husband Doug Barrowman on PPE Medpro and the truth about what has happened to us. ⬇️

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People paying their taxes is not a story. Using an offshore structure to try to avoid tax, when tax was actually due, getting caught, denying it, suing people who talk about it, and secretly settling with HMRC? That's a story.

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"People paying their taxes is not a story" Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove says he believes HMRC has "no quibble" with Tory Chairman Nadhim Zahawi after newspaper claims that he agreed to pay millions of pounds to settle his tax affairs | #R4Today

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1 year

My heart goes out to the HMRC team who had to negotiate a settlement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Tom Larkin

1 year

NEW: Confirmed by @robpowellnews that Nadhim Zahawi did reach HMRC settlement WHILE he was Chancellor. At the same time as he had direct oversight of the tax man. And of the nation's finances.

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2 years

My tax lawyer view on Akshata Murthy: 1. Plausible that she is a non-dom 2. Claiming remittance basis isn’t avoidance 3. But it was a choice, and IMO an inappropriate one. Creates a serious conflict for Sunak 4. Damaging for the tax system - “one rule for them, one for us”

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5 months

New report: another potentially criminal breach of the law by Douglas Barrowman - they failed to declare his ownership of their Belgravia house. Quick thread:

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4 months

Tomorrow we’ve a report on how Douglas Barrowman made his millions. Stay tuned.

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1 year

I am receiving so many messages. The stats in our report show the scale of the problem, but those 400,000 are all real people, with stories like this:

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4 months

Here's a short summary of the evidence we believe demonstrates that Barrowman's companies committed fraud, cutting to the key point, the false documents as quickly as I can:

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1 year

This will be my last Zahawi update for a while. After trying to push this story for six months, it now has plenty of life of its own. A swathe of brilliant journalists are on the case, and I can take a step back. What happens next is politics, not tax law.

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How it started: how it's going:

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4 months

This is brilliant news. The Post Office scandal absolutely did involve theft - each time the Post Office forced postmasters to pay them, to cover “shortfalls” which didn’t exist. And it went on for 13 years.

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Met Police told @thetimes that officers were “investigating potential fraud offences arising out of these prosecutions”, relating to “monies recovered from sub-postmasters as a result of prosecutions or civil actions”. Great scoop from @legalhackette

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1 year

It's lovely that Zahawi says his taxes are properly declared and paid in the UK. The question is: were they properly declared and paid *before* what looks like an unusual and very large settlement payment to HMRC?

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Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi ‘pays millions to settle tax row’ after investigation

It comes after The Independent first revealed the inquiry into the Tory chair’s tax affairs last year

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4 months

Apologies again for the delay. We thought this story would be recapping the fairly well known Barrowman contractor loan tax avoidance scheme. However we've actually found something much more serious, and evidence that we think should lead to a prosecution. More soon.

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1 year

Surprising twist to the saga of Nadhim Zahawi's tax avoidance and libel threats. Quick thread:

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1 year

So Zahawi is currently briefing journalists on background that the only evidence against him comes from the blog of a Labour activist. That's a very weird way to describe The Sun.

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Dan Neidle

3 months

Another outrage. A Post Office investigator went into a postmaster's parents' house and seized their jewellery, supposedly using powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act. I have some questions.

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Alan Ramsay

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#PostOfficeScandal So next 2 days are Robert Daily and Raymond Grant. They searched mum & dad's house and took away all mum's jewellery, even though she didn't work for the Post Office. Kept it for 7 months, under the 'Proceeds of Crime Act', even though dad was never charged.

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4 months

I sent an email to Barrowman and his team last week, notifying them of some very serious accusations we plan to publish. Hadn’t heard back yet, but I’m going to take Mone’s response as an acknowledgment of receipt.

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2 years

On Wednesday, Nadhim Zahawi said that his founder shares in YouGov ended up with a Gibraltar company because it had provided capital. I went through all the filings and concluded that either I was missing something, or Zahawi was lying. Turns out Zahawi was lying. An update:

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi founded YouGov, but took no shares in it. A Gibraltar company, Balshore Investments, did instead. Zahawi says this wasn't tax avoidance, but was his father injecting capital into the business. Here's my hunt for evidence. A very lengthy thread:

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Dan Neidle

2 months

A very strange High Court decision was just published. It reveals that an unknown person or company is engaged in an international strategic litigation campaign to block international tax and transparency initiatives, and is going to great lengths to remain anonymous.

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5 months

So what’s the consequence for Baroness Mone of sending libel lawyers to threaten journalists for reporting what, she now admits, she knew was the truth? The answer is: nothing.

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BBC Politics

5 months

“We should have told the press” Baroness Michelle Mone admits lying to the media about her involvement in a PPE company led by her husband during the pandemic but says “we weren’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes” #BBCLauraK

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I'm really pleased the Prime Minister agrees there are "questions that need answering" from Nadhim Zahawi. Here are mine, sent to Mr Zahawi yesterday. Haven't heard back yet, but I'm sure he's having a busy day.

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BREAKING: Rishi Sunak has asked new ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus to investigate Nadhim Zahawi tax case, as there are "questions that need answering".

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1 year

I gave an interview to BBC Breakfast this morning on Zahawi's statement/partial admission. That, and my detailed response, can be found here:

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What the Zahawi statement tells us, and what we still don’t know

UPDATE: this was written right after Zahawi issued his statement on 21 January. The timeline in that statement is contradicted by Sir Laurie Magnus’ conclusions in his letter to the Prime Minister…

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi really, really, doesn't want anyone referring to the reports he was investigated by the NCA, and really really doesn't like me saying that HMRC are probably investigating him now.

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1 year

Zahawi tells Newsnight his tax affairs were always up-to-date. Tax guru @rbeccabeneworth tells Newsnight a penalty means de facto his tax affairs were in default, and he knew it. It's the most impossible dilemma. Who do I believe?

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Last year, the Times and then The Daily Mirror reported that Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone owned (and sometimes lived in) a house in Belgravia which was held by an offshore trust.

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi has provided a series of unsatisfactory answers about his tax affairs. At least three appear to be false. I have nine outstanding questions, some of which are very serious, and some of which suggest there has been a failure to pay that that was due.

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The Post Office falsely accused thousands of postmasters of theft. It took their money, their livelihoods and their reputations. It's finally paying compensation. But the compensation scheme is itself a scandal. Our analysis:

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Dan Neidle

8 months

A remarkable story in the Sunday Times that Lord Sugar tried to become a tax exile. He thought he'd avoid £186m of UK tax on some huge dividends, but ended up writing HMRC a £186m cheque. A quick thread on why Sugar failed to become a tax exile, and why so many others succeed.

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We've more evidence of fraud by a Douglas Barrowman company, and a potential explanation for how PPE Medpro made a profit of £60m which doesn't appear in its accounts. Our new report - thread:

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3 months

A thread on how I accidentally blundered into an invisible campaign to censor the internet, and remove inconvenient news stories from Google...

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Dan Neidle

4 months

Are you bored? Would you like to play with an interactive map showing all the 38,590 overseas entities holding English/Welsh real estate? With clickable thingies that let you identify where someone has unlawfully hidden their ownership...

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Map of overseas holders of UK real estate

Since the start of 2023, all overseas entities have had to be registered with the land registry and on Companies House – the “register of overseas entities”. We’ve created a interactive map that lets…

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6 months

So Michelle Mone has admitted her involvement in failed PPE supplier PPE Medpro. Two consequences:

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Dan Neidle

4 months

A Christmas #PostOfficeScandal . When the Post Office finally paid compensation to its victims, it landed them with a tax bill. It promised to cover this - but failed. 1,100 postmasters will have a £10k tax bill on 31 Jan with no help at all. Important 🧵:

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Dan Neidle

4 months

I’ve no doubt Dave is right, but we must never forget that the Post Office scandal isn’t an IT scandal. It’s a human and legal scandal. Plenty of IT projects are disasters. There isn’t usually a cover-up that involves prosecuting the innocent.

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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator

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4 months

Re the #PostOfficeScandal - an IT perspective from me about large scale software development in 1999 - I used to build online banks… each development team had their own development server, for testing the teams code. Then we had integration servers, for testing when combined…

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Dan Neidle

6 months

The brilliance of the UK tax system means that a social worker is paying an 85% marginal tax rate. Or rather they aren't, because they're not stupid. They're just turning away work. HMRC don't get the tax. We don't get the social work. Everybody loses.

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How did we end up with a rate of tax on capital gains so much lower than the rate of tax on employment income? The very silly history of UK CGT, in five charts.

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The BBC says it and its experts were threatened by Post Office lawyers trying to stop the 2015 Panorama programme. Please, BBC, publish the letters.

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More on Douglas Barrowman: a whole bunch of questions about PPE Medpro, a mysterious BVI loan and a struck-off solicitor... Quick thread

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5 months

Weirdly the Mone/Barrowman documentary fails to explain why they lied to hide their ownership of their PPE company.

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Lady Michelle Mone

5 months

My husband and I have been used as a scapegoat by the government for their own failings on PPE procurement. This new documentary will begin to tell the truth about this scandal. 🎥 Click here to watch:

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4 months

When Barrowman says his PPE Medpro £60m was "fully disclosed on his tax return" that absolutely doesn't mean he paid tax on it. The Isle of Man lets you cap your tax liability at £200,000. So it would be surprising if he paid a penny of tax on it,

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Lady Michelle Mone

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A statement from my husband Doug Barrowman on PPE Medpro and the truth about what has happened to us. ⬇️

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Barrowman, Mone, and the coverup of who owns the PPE company that’s being investigated for fraud. A more digestible read in today’s Sunday Times: Questions over who really owns PPE firm linked to Mone given £200m

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Dan Neidle

2 years

The public have a right to know if the Chancellor of the Exchequer - the person responsible for HMRC and tax - created a tax avoidance scheme to avoid £4m of his personal tax.

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Dan Neidle

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Rishi Sunak made about £2.3m in 2022/23 and paid £520k tax. About a 23% effective tax rate. What devious planning did he use to pay so little tax? Absolutely none 1/3

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Dan Neidle

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This is fascinating & important, but it should never be forgotten that the IT failings may be a scandal, but they are not *the* scandal. The scandal is that people were prosecuted because of the IT. Crappy government procurement is not responsible for that - the Post Office is.

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Robert Peston

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Back in 1999, Sir Geoff Mulgan was an important but isolated voice in Tony Blair’s senior team who warned that Fujitsu’s Horizon system - which has led to such an appalling miscarriage of justice for so many sub-postmasters - was a monumental crock. Shortly before the final…

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Dan Neidle

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The Post Office falsely accused thousands of postmasters of theft. But the level of compensation now being offered is an insult. Your reputation in shreds for a decade? The local community convinced you were a thief? Forced to move? Maybe, just maybe, they’ll pay £10,000.

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Dan Neidle

3 months

Spoiler: there is no dark wizardry, just a tax system that taxes employment income at a marginal rate of 47%, but capital gains from shares at 20%

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Sky News

3 months

'The PM made £2.3m and he paid an effective rate of 22%. What dark wizardry does his tax advisers use to achieve that?' Lawyer @DanNeidle explains Rishi Sunak's summary of his financial affairs. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Dan Neidle

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The Post Office has published the letter its CEO, Nick Read, wrote to the Government begging it not to pass legislation reversing all the Horizon convictions. There are several very odd features to this correspondence.

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Dan Neidle

1 year

I’m now mostly done with Mr Zahawi, but plenty of other people are on the case. Marcus is one of the sharpest:

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Marcus Leroux

1 year

A small development on the Nadhim Zahawi story: we can say categorically that he has an expensive mortgage with an offshore business owned by his parents. The Bank of Mum and Dad in a very literal and quite unusual sense. [a short thread]

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Dan Neidle

29 days

The Post Office's top priority is covering-up its mistakes. Thread on what happened when we identified that the Post Office's compensation payments to thousands of postmasters were a tax disaster.

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Dan Neidle

1 year

Zahawi is conspicuously not denying that the “seven figure” tax payment was to settle a dispute with HMRC over his YouGov tax avoidance. But how did he negotiate and finalise a settlement with HMRC in six months? It usually takes years.

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Dan Neidle

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This is the UK's marginal tax rate on someone with three kids. You can earn £50k and pay a marginal rate of 68%. It's disgrace. But it's made even worse by the way a large chunk of this tax is collected - the "high income child benefit charge" (HICBC). Thread:

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Dan Neidle

1 year

Here's what happened when @alexsobel raised Zahawi's mysterious £m tax payment at PMQs:

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Dan Neidle

4 months

Companies House, the CPS and the police have a choice. Prosecute Barrowman and his team for a breach that was both blatant and impactful. Or get ready for absolutely everyone to ignore these rules. Because rules that are never enforced may as well not exist.

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Dan Neidle

1 year

The Guardian reports that two companies, PPE Medpro and LFI Diagnostics are ultimately controlled by Douglas Barrowman (Michelle Mone's husband). But neither company lists Barrowman as a "person with significant control". If the Guardian is correct, Barrowman broke the law.

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Dan Neidle

1 year

Quite a few people tagging/DMing me this kind of thing, about @Jacob_Rees_Mogg . It's nonsense. JRM did not avoid £103m of corporation tax or indeed, so far as I can see, any tax.

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Dan Neidle

5 months

Some questions @bbclaurak could ask Michelle Mone:

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Lady Michelle Mone

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I will appear on ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ this weekend with my husband for our first exclusive interview since beginning our fightback against DHSC. @bbclaurak

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Dan Neidle

1 year

And my response:

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Dan Neidle

4 months

Newsnight now on, with our report on the evidence that we believe demonstrates Douglas Barrowman's companies defrauded their clients and HMRC.

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Dan Neidle

5 months

Thrilled to have won "investigation of the year" in the British Journalism Awards for our Zahawi investigation. Hope nobody minds a slightly self-indulgent shout-out to all the people who helped:

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Press Gazette

5 months

@WilliamJHague @mattholehouse @TheEconomist @samanthajbooth @SchoolsWeek @BMA_Pete @ben_ireland_11 @TheDrMagazine @TheBMA @ITV @MajedHanda @MandoNechirvan @jamiewelham @AmazonUK @sian_boyle @jessjanehill @KatieMorley_ @Telegraph @BBCandrewpicken @BBCScotlandNews @RenewableUK @lilimendonca @Andrew_Wasley @MisbahSK_ @great_murray @jomoulds @TBIJ @RachSalv @leanahosea @guardian @WATERSHED_i @Jeky_Kelly @OwenPinnell @AzherRubaie @rosiepelican @muskhalili @timawford @BBCNews @arainbird @DailyMirror @ohrhealy @antoniacundy @FT @Beltrew @Independent @WIJ_UK Winner of Investigation of the Year is @DanNeidle at Tax Policy Associates for his “determined and forensic” work on the Nadhim Zahawi tax avoidance allegations #BJA2023

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Dan Neidle

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What's fair compensation for all the distress and suffering of a postmaster falsely accused of stealing, losing their livelihood, and waiting years to for their name to be cleared? If your answer is £5,000 then you probably work for the Post Office.

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Dan Neidle

1 year

I will now be moving on to other projects. Thank you all for your help and support, for which I am incredibly grateful.

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Dan Neidle

9 months

I'm not a criminal lawyer. I'm not familiar with criminal appeal procedures work. My position is simply that 700 postmasters cannot be expected to wait ten more years for their convictions to be referred, one by one, to appeal courts.

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Wrongly convicted postmasters need justice right now

Between 2000 and 2015, the Post Office falsely accused thousands of postmasters of theft, on the basis of financial shortfalls reported by a computer accounting system called Horizon. The Post Office...

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Dan Neidle

1 year

Another shocking story from what is probably the biggest legal scandal of my lifetime:

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Tom Witherow

1 year

EXC: A victim who lost his post office, house and marriage in the IT scandal is set to *hand back* £322,000 in compensation. 📬 Francis Duff said: 'I've been shafted twice.' My investigation reveals the gaping holes in the Post Office schemes. 🧵👇

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Dan Neidle

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The big tax mystery of 2024 - who's trying to keep their dispute with HMRC out of the papers?

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Dan Neidle

1 year

This may be the most important chart in UK tax policy. It suggests the UK's VAT registration threshold is holding back the growth of 26,000 companies. 🧵:

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@DanNeidle

Dan Neidle

6 months

A quick thread reflecting on Zahawi, Barrowman and Mone. Why libel law rewards liars, and how we could change it:

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