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Originally Posted by nomadking
The NI thing is about closing a tax loophole. For the most part we are not talking about entrepreneurs in any sense of the word. They are mostly doing the same sort of work that employees are doing. If you are going to benefit from NI contributions in the same way as employees, expect to pay the same rates.
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Self employed people do not benefit in the same way as employees. We don't get statutory sick pay. Employees do. We don't get maternity/paternity leave. We receive less from the system so it is entirely fair that we pay less in, at least as long as we're going to continue the fiction that we are actually paying in to an insurance scheme, which we're not, really. It's just income tax by other means.