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I did a little reckoner showing that if you earn this much, this is how much extra ni you re going to be paying a year from april. and what really staggered people was that the 1.25% percentage point increase in the tax, that has been miscomputed and they thought it would only go up by 1.25%, whereas actually, in pounds and pence, the increase in the tax that you re paying from the last tax year to this tax year is more than 10%. can you give us some examples? show us your working! so for the average worker on a salary of £30,000 a year, they are going to be paying an extra £255 in national insurance, which is 10% more than they would have been paying under the old rate. then as you move up the scale, those percentages get bigger somebody on £80,000 is going to be paying £880 extra. that s a 16% increase. ....