Submitted on Wednesday 8th March 2017
Rejected on Wednesday 15th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Scrap the 2% increase in NICs for the self employed
Self employed people do not enjoy the luxuries of sick pay, maternity pay or holiday pay. Sometimes we don't know where next week's wage will come from. Increasing our NICs will only make things harder in these already difficult times. Scrap the 2% increase and find your £145m elsewhere.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Chancellor has announced today (15 March) that the proposed changes to National Insurance for self-employed people won’t go ahead.
The Chancellor made a statement about this to the House of Commons. You can find out more, including how to watch the statement and read a transcript, here:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2017/march/statement-on-class-4-national-insurance-contributions/
You can read a letter about this issue, which the Chancellor has sent to the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee (Andrew Tyrie MP), here:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-chancellor-to-chairman-of-treasury-select-committee-on-national-insurance-contributions-for-the-self-employed
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