Submitted on Thursday 14th May 2020
Rejected on Monday 1st June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Open the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to those with 2019-20 tax returns
The COVID-19 Self-Employment Income Support Scheme is extremely helpful to many, but for businesses that did not trade in 2018-19 is out out of reach. Now that the 2019-2020 tax year has concluded, the scheme should be opened up to those that have submitted their 2019-2020 Self-Assessment tax return
When the scheme was announced the 2019-2020 tax year had not concluded, so it necessary to exclude it. Extra help was given to those who were late in submitting their 2018-2019 tax return by extending the filing deadline. Given that it is now possible to submit a 2019-2020 tax return (albeit earlier than normal), it is possible to calculate the support that a significant number of newly trading individuals require, whilst avoiding the potential for fraudulent claims which was a genuine concern.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471
Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318435
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