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What is the employment allowance?

The employment allowance is available to most small employers, reducing their liability to secondary Class 1 national insurance contributions (NIC). This is restricted to those employers with an employer’s NIC liability under £100,000 from 6 April 2020. It is a flat rate reduction in the overall amount that most employers have to pay in secondary NIC in respect of their employees. The employment allowance is set at £5,000 from 2022/23, having previously been £4,000 from 2020/21.

Since 6 April 2020, as set out in SI 2020/218, it is available if:

1. •

   the previous tax year’s total employers’ (ie secondary) NIC liability must be less than £100,000

2. •

   claims will need to be submitted every year and cannot be rolled over from one year to the next

Employer Bulletin 80

When an employee’s pay is more than the secondary threshold (see the Overview of NIC Classes, rates