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(COVID-19) Self-employment Income Support Scheme for those who were PAYE before

Submitted on Monday 30th March 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 15th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

(COVID-19) Self-employment Income Support Scheme for those who were PAYE before

Petition Details

To have a debate and authorize those who were paying TAX as PAYE before and become self-employed less then a year.

Additional Information

If you're a new self-employed individual and have paid TAX as a PAYE before THEN you should be included in the scheme and should not be discriminated.

There are many workers who have been paying TAX for the past years and now have became self-employed. This petition aims to make new self-employed eligible to Self-employment Income Support Scheme, as long as they have contributed to the country through NINo or UTR number in the past and will have tax-return for the tax year 2019-20.


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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.

You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action.

Pay self employed workers a wage due to lack or earnings caused by COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303345

Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471

Remove the £50k earnings limit for self-employed to access government funding: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310455

Coronavirus Support Package for Directors / Shareholders of small Limited Co's: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310515

Get HMRC to refund the Self-Employed their Jan 2020 1st Tax Payment on Account: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304995

Bring forward COVID-19 Self-employment grants to April 2020: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310898

You can find out about what Government support is available for people as a result of coronavirus (under the section on employment and financial support) here: www.gov.uk/coronavirus


You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

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 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 correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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