Find out about the Health and Social Care Levy including how it might affect your National Insurance contributions.
What the changes are and when they will affect you
For tax year 6 April 2022 to 5 April 2023
Employer Class 1, employee Class 1, Class 1A, Class 1B and Class 4 National Insurance contributions will increase, for one year, by 1.25 percentage points.
From 6 April 2023
The National Insurance contribution rates will go back down to 2021 to 2022 levels, and the levy will become a separate new tax of 1.25%.
How the levy will affect you
If you are an employer, employee or self-employed (and below the State Pension age), you will pay the 1.25 percentage points increase in National Insurance contributions.
From 6 April 2023
The separate levy of 1.25% will apply to the same amounts for the following classes of National Insurance contributions:
- Class 1 that are above the primary and secondary thresholds
- Class 1A and Class 1B for employers
- Class 4 for the self-employed
All existing National Insurance contribution reliefs will apply to the separate levy for:
- employees under the age of 21
- apprentices under the age of 25
- qualifying Freeport employees
- those eligible for the Employment Allowance
- armed forces veterans
HMRC will collect the levy through existing PAYE payroll and Self Assessment systems.