Buzz: Industry pushes for NI and income tax merger

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Respondents are highly in favour of merging the two central tax payments, despite the government having kicked the issue into the long grass after a consultation in 2011.

Question: With the end of ‘contracting out', is there now an argument for merging Income Tax and National Insurance into one tax on income? "Any chance to simplify tax should be taken," said one...

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