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Chancellor’s U-turn on National Insurance

21 March 2017 / Richard Curtis
Issue: 4592 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Government gumbo

KEY POINTS

  • Spring Budget proposes increase to class 4 NICs.
  • Was the NICs (Rate Ceilings) Act 2015 overlooked?
  • Government backs down and retracts increase.
  • Why no outcry over the increased dividend tax?

I’m not too sure whether I and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond have the same taste in music. Nor am I too sure how I’d find out. Has Kirsty Young interviewed him for Desert Island Discs? However being cast away on a remote island might have been a very appealing thought for poor Philip on 15 March as he had to sit next to his boss in the Commons and listen to her ‘screeching U-turn’ on his proposal to increase class 4 National Insurance contributions for the self-employed. In the same way that his favourite eight records remain for the...

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