Self-employed National Insurance Rates
Posted on 2nd February 2023 by Joanne Stoneman
The GOV.UK guidance has been updated for self-employed people. This is in line with the previously announced National Insurance threshold changes affecting both the 2022 to 2023 tax year and the 2023 to 2024 tax year.
The GOV.UK guidance has been updated for self-employed people. This is in line with the previously announced National Insurance threshold changes affecting both the 2022 to 2023 tax year and the 2023 to 2024 tax year.
Read more about the self-employed National Insurance rates.
The following changes were introduced for the self-employed:
- the National Insurance Lower Profits Limit is £11,908 a year for tax year 2022 to 2023
- those with profits above the Small Profits Threshold (£6,725) and no more than the Lower Profits Threshold (£11,908) are not liable to pay Class 2 National Insurance contributions (NICs) from April 2022 and will still be entitled to access contributory benefits
- from 6 November 2022 the headline rates of National Insurance contributions were reduced by 1.25 percentage points
- from 6 April 2023 the self-employed can earn £12,570 before paying either Class 2 or Class 4 National Insurance contributions
Self-Assessment customers need to file returns in order to have contributions treated as paid and allocated to accounts, even if they have no National Insurance contributions liabilities because they are earning between the Small Profits Threshold (£6,725) and Lower Profits Threshold (£11,908).