Nics in a sentence

The savings stem from successive reductions to NICs implemented by the chancellor, lowering the main rate of employee NICs from 12 per cent to 8 per cent, and the primary rate of self-employed NICs from 9 per cent to 6 per cent.

In 2018, he expressed support for the FIX NICS Act aimed at improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the federal database used for background checks in gun purchases.

Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local police to be informed any time an undocumented immigrant tries to purchase a gun.

Employer NICs are paid by employers on their employees’ earnings at 13.8 per cent.

Its director Michelle Janes told BBC News NI that they will be "held accountable" for providing public services on behalf of the public bodies who have been protected from the rise in NICs.

Ministers have been arguing that does not breach the Labour manifesto vow not to raise the main rates of NICs, income tax or VAT because it will not appear on 'payslips'.

Mr Dance is urging the government to rethink this decision and scrap the NICs increase for small businesses in Yeovil and South Somerset.

NICs will not be increased for employees after Ms Reeves vowed not to target 'working people' and instead hit firms in order to raise revenues.

Speaking to the Guardian newspaper and the Observer this weekend, David Maslen, head of tax at the accountancy firm Old Mill, says: “Profits from the business will be subject to income tax and class 4 NICs.

Stuart Adam, senior economist at the IFS said: “Employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) are a tax on the earnings of working people.

The NICs increase alone is seen by the Scottish Tourism Alliance, among others, as likely to lead to squeezed pay from next year, and redundancies "cannot be ruled out".

NICS statistics cover only licensed gun dealers, and there is no tally for private sales between individuals.

Rep. Bill Pownall, a Republican from Gillette and disgraced former sheriff, is pushing hard (House Bill 59) to dump as many gun owner names into the Federal NICS database as he can.

Gregory said the case turned on the NICS examiner's alleged negligence in disregarding mandatory procedures that if followed would have uncovered Roof's drug admission.

To investigate the degree of antiaromacity within the cage, the team performed nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) calculations.

Although the NRA has backed the Fix NICS bill, Gun Owners of America argues approval of the legislation will result in the unfair inclusion of many more people, including veterans treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, in the FBI’s database.

Important mental health records that would have kept Seung-Hui Cho from getting the guns he used to kill 32 people at Virginia Tech were never entered into NICS.

Once a court grants the order, the state must remove the person from the NICS Index and expunge all records related to the person’s registration on the list.

Republicans, who had hoped to pass the Fix Nics legislation by the end of the week, are no longer sure what the path forward will be.

Senate Republican leader for stricter background checks, specifically under the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.