Imagine, for a moment, that instead of bringing thousands of low-wage positions into the scope of employer NICs for the first time by lowering the threshold, Reeves had just raised the overall employer NIC rate.
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Nathan
I still maintain that the issue was never about raising revenue through employer NICs, but rather the coinciding of pressures on job creation at the bottom end of the income distribution: i.e. lowering of employer NIC threshold, above-inflation min wage rise, changes to sick pay
