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Include tax year 2019/2020 in the calculation for Covid-19 Self Employed Grant.

Submitted on Friday 27th March 2020

Rejected on Friday 3rd April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Include tax year 2019/2020 in the calculation for Covid-19 Self Employed Grant.

Petition Details

The proposed self-employed scheme doesn’t cover people who have only in the last year made their whole living self employed.

As the scheme doesn’t start until June it gives people who need it 3 months to submit the tax return for 2019/20 and would save the livelihood of thousands.

Additional Information

I like countless others, in the previous 3 years worked a combination of PAYE and Self-employed. We paid significant taxes on both PAYE and Self-employed, yet can’t get any help as we no longer hold the PAYE jobs to ask for furlough, and did not make more than 50% income from self employment.

This is significantly destructive to young people starting out who had finally been able to go fully self employed & will now set them back and no doubt require them to once again work multiple side jobs.


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This petition was rejected

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.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471

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