Taking the NIC
KEY POINTS
- The raising of the upper earnings limit will raise more than £5bn from National Insurance contributions by 2021.
- Some measures were not costed in the autumn statement.
- Class 1 simplification has been dropped.
- Class 2 abolition in 2018 will disadvantage some minorities.
- Class 3 rules are to be re-written to bring in some short-term benefit cover.
- Evidently ‘simplification’ has been re-defined.
Okay chaps so here’s the plan: we fix National Insurance contribution rates for five years then we expand the base fragment the published information and no one will ever notice the NIC take. Or am I being cynical?
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