Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 17th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Grant an immediate three-month tax holiday due COVID-19
We urge the government to grant an immediate three-month tax holiday from National Insurance, PAYE, and VAT, in addition to relief on business rates.
This would help support cash-flow hit by a sudden and huge decline in consumer demand, driven in large part by social distancing measures required to tackle the virus.
This petition is in response to the proposed government backing for up to £330bn of loans to companies struggling because of the Coronavirus.
A three-month tax holiday would provide direct support rather than committing businesses to indebtedness with loans.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301377
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You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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