Submitted on Thursday 2nd August 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make Stonewall Pay Its Taxes
We call on the Inland Revenue to withdraw Stonewall's charitable status and make it pay tax.
The Stonewall lobbying group, a homosexual activist organization, has wrongly been granted charitable status and avoids paying tax. Under British law, it is not permitted for charities to engage in any sort of political campaigning or lobbying to change laws.
"It is considered unacceptable for charitable trusts to campaign for political or legal change, although discussing political issues in a neutral manner is acceptable."
Yet Stonewall has never stopped campaigning on political issues for the last 30 years They state on their own website that they were formed to campaign against Clause 28 of the Local Government Act. That is political and so are all the campaigns they have conducted since then e.g. to lower the age of consent or to advocate homosexual adoption "rights".
It is unfair that they are treated as a charity.
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