Submitted on Monday 20th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 29th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Coronavirus business support must be proportional to the UK taxes they've paid
The government is putting billions of pounds into helping businesses and individuals to survive the economic impacts of the pandemic. The repayment of this will, ultimately, fall to our tax-paying individuals and corporations. Support should go in proportion to the taxes historically paid.
There are organisations / individuals that operate in the UK but do everything in their power to avoid paying UK taxes. They are happy to take their profits but refuse to pay their share of the country's costs. If the government is using tax-payer monies to provide support during the coronavirus pandemic then it should be limited - for such organisations / individuals - to a proportion of the UK taxes (excluding VAT) they've paid over the past 3-5 years.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you want the Government to limit eligibility for Covid-19 financial support, but it's not clear exactly how you want this to work, or what proportion of past tax payments you want individual companies to be able to receive.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Provide COVID19 financial assistance only to companies paying UK corporation tax: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305203
Ban all that engage in tax avoidance and evasion from receiving Corona relief: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318335
You could start a new petition calling on the Government to restrict individual companies to claiming a certain amount of support, based on past tax payments, provided it was clear how you wanted this to work.
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 find 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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