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The forecast

17 March 2009 / Richard Curtis
Issue: 4198 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Income Tax
Time to pay arrears of voluntary Class 3 NICs is fast running out as RICHARD CURTIS explains to a fellow dog-walker

KEY POINTS

  • Has an ‘invitation to pay’ NIC arrears been received?
  • Obtaining a state pension forecast.
  • Is it worth paying the arrears?
  • Beware the new higher rates of Class 3 contributions.

Rufus the dog doesn’t take much interest in forecasts; sun rain snow. It’s all the same to him and he still always wants to go for a walk.

I suspect that the only downside for him of wet weather is that when he comes home all he can smell is damp humans.

It was while out walking with him recently that I was accosted by a lady dog walker (that is the dog walker was a lady not the dog Benji) who was waving a piece of paper which on closer inspection turned out to be a letter...

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