Submitted on Thursday 23rd April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 21st May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Refuse to financially assist businesses registered abroad to avoid paying UK tax
We want the UK government to categorically promise that no firm that has registered offshore for the purpose of avoiding or lowering its tax responsibility will benefit from any government assistance for losses incurred due to the Covid-19 epidemic when this assistance is funded by the UK taxpayer.
We feel that is morally irresponsible to assist businesses that have purposely avoided paying their fair share in UK tax. If the UK financially assists companies registered abroad for tax avoidance purposes, then these companies must be forced to pay their tax in the UK and this should be backdated to the time of registration. It would be highly unfair to put a financial burden of this nature on the UK taxpayer.
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