It’s not a huge increase if the 60p-a-week figure is accurate and I don’t begrudge paying my share to improve services. I don’t think that self-employment is good for society, it just temporarily postpones the problem with pensions and social care by almost getting people out of the system. Why on earth should I be happy to pay extra tax when Google pays so little? Alex, 40, 3D designer, London‘Increasing NICs is grossly unfair’Increasing NICs for the self employed is grossly unfair. It is also unfair to have come up with this idea off the back of more people being self-employed.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2017 14:15 UTC