He said there were other additional costs such as increased national insurance contributions for staff.
That will make it harder to simplify the way national-insurance contributions interact with personal-income tax.
Its revenues are being earmarked to finance environmental schemes and lower national insurance contributions.
Many women, and the self-employed, are currently penalised for not making full national insurance contributions.
However, other business taxes such as VAT, employers' National Insurance contributions and business rates have all risen.
However, this will impose a potentially large transitional cost as younger people cease to pay national-insurance contributions.
In 2002, Gordon Brown got a warm public reception for his budget pushing up national-insurance contributions this year.
As a means-tested benefit, Pension Credit payments are assessed on someone's current income not their National Insurance Contributions.
They can then assess "whether they need to take remedial action, which might include making additional National Insurance contributions".
The schools blamed changes in funding, an increase in National Insurance contributions and in employer contributions for teacher pensions.
You have to have enough National Insurance contributions, or credits to make sure that you'll get the full pension.
Under the proposed changes, the agencies would have to pay national insurance contributions in respect of their new employees.
The recent 1% increase in employers' national insurance contributions also tightens the squeeze.
Increases to national insurance contributions, announced in the pre-Budget report last year, meant tax rises were not necessary, he said.
The priority, says George Osborne, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, is to undo the planned increase in national-insurance contributions.
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce urged a rethink on plans to raise National Insurance contributions, branding it a "tax on jobs".
He added that the proposed increase in National Insurance contributions in 2011 was a "tax on jobs" which should be scrapped.
Changes to employers' national-insurance contributions will make it cheaper to employ low-paid workers, but costlier to employ people on high incomes.
The chancellor retained the tax increases already planned by Labour, but took steps to mitigate the rise in national-insurance contributions (NICs) next April.
To this day, paycheck stubs identify Social Security taxes withheld from a worker's wages as FICA -- for Federal Insurance Contributions Act -- deductions.
All legal residents covered by public health insurance funded by compulsory social health insurance contributions from employers and employees with no option to opt out.
Employers therefore thought that this was reasonable to compensate for their National Insurance contributions by deducting some of the state pension, hence the term clawback.
He has already announced a big tax increase in National Insurance contributions, from 1 April 2003, to help pay for increased spending on health and education.
Payment will be limited to one year for those who are able to do some work and whose payment is based on their National Insurance contributions.
These companies also save money by not having to pay employer's national insurance contributions on the part of the worker's income which is paid as expenses.
As well as confirming his plan to end the temporary reduction in VAT at the start of 2010, the chancellor has turned again to his favourite levy, national-insurance contributions.
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The Tories have denied Labour's claims that they will need to raise VAT in order to cover the costs of not raising their planned raise in National Insurance contributions.
In the FT, Mr Fox said there was a strong argument for more spending cuts to reduce "taxes on employment" and called for employers' National Insurance contributions to be reduced.
Higher national-insurance contributions for the better-off are another option.
Their proposals to promote more private-sector jobs for the poor by cutting employers' national insurance contributions and shifting the burden of taxation on to capital-intensive activities from labour-intensive ones merit further consideration.
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