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.
