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Increased National Insurance costs will discourage employment

Accountancy firm MacIntyre Hudson has reported that 94% of a survey of 450 SMEs view next year’s planned increase in employers National Insurance contributions as sufficient to prevent them taking on new staff.

Rather than implementing the 0.5% increase, more than nine out of ten of those surveyed called for reductions in employer’s contributions and a lowering of income tax for those on lower wages.