D-day arriving for UK pensions

**Lucifer Box** · 23 May 2006, 11:03

I've just been invited to pay some voluntary NI contributions to top up my state pension. I think I'll pass on that opportunity given that I'll almost certainly be dead before I can collect.

**Mailman** · 23 May 2006, 12:21

Employees would contribute 4% of their salary, employers 3% and the government 1%.

And there we have it, an increase in your tax!

Obviously the only answer to this is...a flat tax system!

After all, its only fair!

Mailman

**Churchill** · 23 May 2006, 12:37

Will this be in addition to current levels of National Insurance or instead of?

(Yeah, I know the answer...)

**Lucifer Box** · 23 May 2006, 13:38

Hang on a mo

Employees would contribute 4% of their salary, employers 3% and the government 1%.

And where exactly does the government get its 1% from? Ah, that would be the magic money tree in the garden of 11 Downing Street again.

**Xenophon** · 23 May 2006, 13:38

Keep working and die young.

D-day arriving for UK pensions