Comments on: “HA-Haw”: Companies that blanket banned freelancers hit hardest by Employers’ NI increase https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/ha-haw-companies-that-blanket-banned-freelancers-hit-hardest-by-employers-ni-increase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ha-haw-companies-that-blanket-banned-freelancers-hit-hardest-by-employers-ni-increase Empowering the Freelance Economy Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Matt https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/ha-haw-companies-that-blanket-banned-freelancers-hit-hardest-by-employers-ni-increase/#comment-12700 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:30:17 +0000 https://www.freelanceinformer.com/?p=28780#comment-12700 Many genuine contractors forced to use umbrella companies already pay the employers’ NI out of their assignment rate and will unfairly have to shoulder this additional tax burden which according to the govt “does not affect workers at all”. There may be a slight offset of reduced personal tax liability as a result, but many “inside” workers will be worse off, possibly quite significantly. Perhaps some can negotiate rate increases to compensate, but that’s far from guaranteed.

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