Submitted on Wednesday 17th June 2020
Rejected on Monday 13th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Economic Reform for Black British Subjects
Black British subjects should be:
Tax exempted
Reimbursed Tax
Compensated
Britain abolished the slave trade but only after 200 years of benefiting from it.
British slave owners were then compensated with 20 million pounds in 1833 (40% GDP), which in todays money equates to 17 Billion pounds.
As this was such a large sum of money and the government were unable to pay this, they raised bonds. British tax payers only finished paying off these bonds in 2015.
The compensation request is due to the government paying people who owned other people.
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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.
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Reimburse tax payers for monies used to compensate slave owners: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325300
Refund taxes used to pay slavery abolition debt to British descendants of slaves: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325536
Pay Slavery Reparations to all Caribbean & African Descendants: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325237
Legislate for the provision of reparations to communities affected by slavery: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325529
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