People’s paypackets are already being emptied faster than ever with the rising cost of living, but they will have even less to spend when a tax hike is due to come into force next month. National Insurance is planned to rise by 1.25 percentage points in April to tackle the Covid-induced NHS backlog and reform […]
It means people will be able to earn £12,570 a year without paying any income tax or National Insurance. The Chancellor said it will benefit 30 million Britons and not just those who are earning below the threshold.
Boris Johnson has refused to rule out delaying his planned hike in National Insurance as a leading economist suggested he had enough financial wriggle room to help ease the cost of living crisis.
It was the moment when months of secret talks about how to fund a new deal for social care finally blew up in the public, prompting a furious reaction from Conservative MPs and party grandees.
A poll released last week shows that two-thirds of Britons support increasing National Insurance contributions in order to pay for a long-delayed reform of social care in the UK. The survey by Ipsos Mori found that 64 percent of those polled said they would support a one percent increase in National Insurance contributions to help […]
