Dan Neidle
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520 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jun
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So just think about the UK.
What can we do in the UK to make our tax system fairer?
So for example...
Why is it that some very wealthy people pay a lower rate of tax?
And one of the most obvious reasons is because they're paying tax for the capital gains tax rate, 24%, and not the income tax rate of 45%.
They're certainly not paying national insurance on top of that.
How can we deal with that?
We can equalise capital gains tax with income tax, at the same time introduce an allowance for the normal return, indexation relief.
so that you're not penalising long-term investment?
Go further.
Why is it that we tax working so much more than investment?
The answer is because of national insurance.
So what we should be looking to do is to, in the long term, abolish national insurance and fold it into income tax, which would be a tax cut for most working people, would be a tax increase for people living off investments.
There's a whole bunch of stuff you can do which requires focus on detail, requires real political investment,
requires the politicians to actually invest political capital in making these changes.
But if you do that, you will have a fairer tax system and you can do it.
Wealth tax, it's a pure talking shop.
It really annoys me.
I, in the end, I'm not an expert in inequality, but I kind of think Zuckerman and Piketty aren't either.
They are obsessed with tax as an instrument of addressing inequality and about financial equality.
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