Submitted on Friday 10th March 2017
Rejected on Wednesday 15th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Abolish the NI Increase for self employed
The government have announced ni increase to make employees and self employed payments more equal.
Self employed people do not receive sick pay, holiday pay or paternity pay. This is why NI contributions should be lower. Taxing small businesses is counter productive to the economy
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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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