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Gavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️
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Lawyer (IP/ Life Sciences), and very ex-biologist. Likes the colour purple. Riding the unicorn of innovation. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇺🦤🦄🩷💜💙

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This continues to be nuts! Essentially putting up taxes on *anyone* putting in the suggested amount into their private pension via salary sacrifice in a convoluted way that will lead to lots of grumbling.
Charging NICs on salary-sacrificed pensions contributions 3.31 Salary-sacrificed pension contributions above an annual £2,000 threshold will no longer be exempt from NICs from April 2029. This means that salary-sacrificed pension contributions above £2,000 will be treated as ordinary employee pension contributions in the tax system and therefore be subject to both employer and employee NICs. Ordinary employer pension contributions will remain exempt from NICs. The policy results in an increase in NICs which is estimated to raise £4.7 billion in 2029-30 and £2.6 billion in 2030-31. 3.32 The costing assumes that in most cases employee pension contributions above £2,000 that were part of a salary-sacrifice scheme will become subject to employer and employee NICs, either because they move to a standard pension scheme or continue in a salary-sacrifice scheme under the new tax arrangements. The estimated yield from this measure is subject to uncertainties related to potential responses to the change by employers and employees: • Employers switching to ordinary contributions: Employers could look to replicate the tax benefits of salary-sacrifice by reducing future wage growth and instead providing employees with higher employer pension contributions. It would also be possible to formally replicate salary-sacrifice through an agreement to reduce wages and increase employer pensions contributions. However, this behaviour would be constrained by interactions with Operational Remuneration Agreement (OpRA) rules and employment
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
gav1nx.bsky.social
I really can't face dealing with the public these days. So, kudos to you, comrade!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
gav1nx.bsky.social
Alas, drinking at work is frowned upon here. #woke
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
gav1nx.bsky.social
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Justice of the Peace Courts | Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service
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November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
gav1nx.bsky.social
I suspect some of you patent nerds have been waiting for today.
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM