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Employer National Insurance contributions increase on 6th April 2025
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Reduce National Insurance Costs

Rising costs don’t have to mean tough choices. Discover how salary sacrifice can protect your bottom line and support your employees.

Upcoming Tax Changes for Employers

What’s Changing and Why It Matters

New National Insurance rules could cost businesses thousands – here’s what you need to know.

Starting April 2025, businesses across the UK will face higher National Insurance costs, driven by a rate increase and a lower threshold. For many employers, these changes mean significantly higher payroll expenses.

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Higher Rates: Employer NI contributions will increase from 13.8% to 15%.
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Lower Threshold: The earnings threshold will drop from £9,100 to £5,000 per employee.
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Increased Costs: Median-salary employees will cost businesses £900 more per year.
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How the National Insurance Increase
Will Impact UK Businesses

Businesses like Currys and Sainsbury’s are already reporting cutbacks in hiring and investment to cope with these changes.

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Hiring & Investment

Increased payroll costs could reduce hiring and investment.

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Prices

Rising expenses may force businesses to raise prices, impacting competitiveness.

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Layoffs & Closures

Smaller businesses may struggle to absorb costs, risking layoffs or closures.

Upcoming Tax Changes for Employers

Why Salary Sacrifice Works for Your Business

By adopting salary sacrifice, businesses can reduce their payroll costs and redirect savings toward growth, employee benefits, or maintaining competitive prices.

It’s a win-win: employers save on National Insurance, and employees boost their pensions without affecting their take-home pay.

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Lower employer NI contributions.
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Protect jobs and avoid cutting back on hiring.
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Offset costs without raising prices for customers.
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Protect Your Business’s Future

Without solutions like salary sacrifice, rising costs can lead to tough decisions: reducing hiring, delaying investments, or increasing prices. Salary sacrifice offers a smarter way forward.

How Penfold
Can Help

Expert guidance, seamless setup, and proven savings – Penfold makes salary sacrifice simple. Penfold specialises in helping businesses navigate the complexities of salary sacrifice with:

• Expert advice tailored to your needs.
• Hassle-free implementation and integration.
• Ongoing support to ensure compliance and maximise savings.

Our tech-first approach ensures you spend less time on admin and more time growing your business.

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Free consultations and tailored solutions

Start with a free consultation to understand your business needs. Penfold’s experts provide customised advice to maximise your savings while ensuring compliance.

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Save time with seamless payroll integration

Penfold can integrate effortlessly with your payroll system, saving you time and reducing admin hassle. Focus on growing your business while Penfold handle the details.

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Transparent pricing with no hidden fees

Penfold’s pricing is straightforward and fair, ensuring you get the full benefit of your savings without surprises or additional charges.

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Trusted by thousands of UK businesses

Join companies nationwide that have partnered with Penfold to navigate rising costs while enhancing employee benefits.

Penfold: Trusted by Businesses Nationwide

Join thousands of companies that have already chosen Penfold to save money and enhance employee benefits.

Penfold helped us to understand salary sacrifice really well.

We had an overview meeting, were sent FAQs and Penfold also hosted a Pension Workshop to take our teams through the platform and salary sacrifice which was really helpful.

The transition process is very straightforward and the team at Penfold do a super job at explaining each step.

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Michelle Kangellaris

Director of People & Culture at Glint

Before Penfold, our pension scheme just wasn’t fit for purpose. We weren’t able to offer salary sacrifice and all employees who were earning above the basic tax rate had to claim back directly from HMRC.

The support offered by Penfold on the implementation and day-to-day support has been superb, and reduced the amount of work that the finance team had to do previously.

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Mobeen Rasheed

Head of Finance at Attest

We've been impressed with the level of service Penfold has provided from day one.

Having a dedicated account manager (and not a chatbot) to support the switch and ensure the onboarding process ran smoothly was incredibly reassuring.

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Pok Hay Ng

Senior People Business Partner at Elvie

Penfold is dramatically better than anything we’ve worked with before and has helped me by removing all of the admin that comes with pensions. ‘Saving time’ is one of the key benefits that encourages me to recommend it to others.

Penfold’s been a huge success at Cuvva, with 88% of the company logging into the app to view their pensions.

It’s one of the tools I just could not live without.

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Alex Perkins

Senior People Operations Partner at Cuvva

Penfold was absolutely amazing in terms of the education, the training, and all the administrative backlog that goes on with moving over pension providers.

It ran so smoothly, I would say to other PeopleOps Leads: ‘Don't hesitate at all.’

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Aileen Walsh

People Operations & Data Lead at Paddle
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