The Hearing – A Legal Podcast

EP. 141 – Dan Neidle (Tax Policy Associates)

The Hearing – A Legal Podcast

Show Notes

This episode's guest pulls off the impossible: he'll make you wonder if maybe you should have been a tax lawyer.

Dan Neidle is described by some as “possibly the UK’s leading tax lawyer”. After spending 25 years at Clifford Chance, including as their UK head of tax, he set-up Tax Policy Associates – a not-for-profit company aiming to improve tax and legal policy and educate the public.

Dan chats with Becky Annison about the fascinating and complicated puzzles he enjoyed solving for clients in practice, why he chose to retire (while still in his 40s) to focus on public policy and advocacy, and why tax law is far more interesting and important than you might think.

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