{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-allowance-increase-of-maximum-amount-regulations-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/63",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Allowance (Increase of Maximum Amount) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-allowance-increase-of-maximum-amount-regulations-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7) (“the Act”).\nPersons who incur liabilities to pay secondary Class 1 National Insurance contributions during a tax year are entitled under section 1 of the Act to claim an allowance, known as the “employment allowance”, which they can deduct from their payments in respect of these liabilities. Regulation 2 amends section 1(2)(a) of the Act so as to increase the maximum amount of the employment allowance from £2,000 to £3,000 for the tax year 2016-17 and subsequent tax years.\nA Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument will be published on the HMRC website athttp:/www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/63/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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