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Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions

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Question for Treasury

UIN 37029, tabled on 10 March 2025

Question

Mr Peter Bedford
Conservative
Mid Leicestershire
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered merging employee National Insurance Contributions and Income Tax.

Answer

James Murray
Labour
Ealing North
Commons

Answered on

14 March 2025

Merging income tax and National Insurance contributions would be a major upheaval in the tax system with consequences for the labour market and impacts for a large number of individuals and businesses.

As such, the Government has no plans to combine income tax and NICs.

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