Submitted on Thursday 4th June 2020
Rejected on Friday 10th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Bring the SEISS In line to the Covid Job Retention Scheme
The UK Government should debate scrapping the ceiling threshold of the SEISS as there is already a maximum payable (in line with the JRS) and the SEISS should be available for all who were registered self employed as of 19th March at HMRCs discretion.
There are many professionals who work hard and have profits over £50000 on average over the 3 tax years. To exclude these professionals from any government help is inequitable.
It is also inequitable to exclude the self employed who left employment to commence self employment simply because their employment income is greater than their profits because they commenced later in the 2020 tax year.
The newly self employed are also excluded from access to the Bounce Back Loan.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Remove the £50k earnings limit for self-employed to access government funding: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310455
Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471
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