Orchestras in Great Britain won’t have to pay a potentially disastrous health insurance bill that could have pushed several of them into bankruptcy. “Many orchestras are formed of self-employed musicians and have not paid national insurance on the income paid to them, as they would have had to for permanent staff… Revenue and Customs has advised the chancellor that the orchestras do not have to pay the contributions, thus averting not only the back tax bill of £33m but an annual future bill of £6m.”