Submitted by Chris Potter on Saturday 3rd January 2026
Published on Thursday 5th February 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 5th August 2026
Current Signatures: 30
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
benefit cap ~ Benefits ~ Change ~ Child ~ Child Benefit ~ child benefit cap ~ Child poverty ~ claim benefits ~ Falling ~ Families ~ income tax ~ income tax rate ~ Parent ~ Poverty ~ Ratings ~ Rewarding ~ system ~ Tackling ~ Tax ~ tax rate ~ work
Reduce income tax rate for parents
We want the government to change tack in tackling child poverty and our falling fertility rate by reducing the income tax rate of parents - for example by 0.5/1% for each parent for each child until they reach 18.
To help tackle child poverty and our falling fertility rate we should also be rewarding working families and not just providing for those on benefits. We should be rewarding parents who work and not people who claim benefits. We think the current system incentivises people not to work. This could incentivise work and working families could be better off. It may also incentivise those not working back into work. We should consider implementing this policy instead of lifting the 2 child benefit cap
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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