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Letters: We should scrap NI and replace it with taxes on income and profit, writes Adrian Darnell, while Janet Briffett believes the poor will end up paying for the well-off

If fairness is the criterion by which to judge a tax , we would never really have introduced national insurance. It’s both an income tax and an employment tax; it’s regressive; it’s not paid by those above the state pension age; it incentivises the construction of imaginative subcontractor avoidance schemes; and it requires its own collection and recording scheme.

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