National insurance and tax reform- get some academic facts

This week the chancellor Philip Hammond made a statement regarding the cancellation of changes to National insurance payments for the self employed which were announced in the budget 2017.

The UK government website has basic facts on National Insurance system and its categories.
Taxaid charity has basic understandable guides for citizens.

on 10th March 2017. Fact checking organisation fullfact examined economic cliams about the impact of changes to the NI rates

Why was the change necessary? what was the reaction to the original budget?
See comment on the original NI changes from a number of newspapers and pre4sure groups

FT 

The Sun

The Express

Tax Payers Alliance

Federation of Small Businesses
CBI
Institute of Directors
ICAEW .


Research on UK tax reform.

IFS research

ICAEW

Reform think tank

Tax research UK Richard Murphy

Institute of Economic Affairs 

Adam Smith (Free Market think tank)

Resolution Foundation

Centre for Policy Studies

RSA

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