Submitted on Saturday 28th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 22nd May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Put an emergency tax on the top 1% to cover the costs of the coronavirus crisis.
The coronavirus has exposed the weaknesses in our health and welfare systems. People are going to need a lot of financial support as businesses and the self-employed are losing weeks of income.
The 2008 financial crisis is being paid for through austerity measures which adversely affect the lower income groups. Austerity has left the NHS, schools and councils hugely under-funded. The higher earners who can afford it should now make a greater contribution to help the nation recover from this new 2020 health crisis; the burden cannot again be placed on ordinary earners.
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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.
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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:
Increase taxes on high earners to fund emergency Budget measures: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305795
Implement a windfall tax on UK billionaires to fund effort to fight Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309220
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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