Petition · past parliament

Appreciate people that work, look at overtime tax rate

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

I do a high amount of overtime hours to try and better myself and to be able to afford certain things, although I already help the economy by paying tax, I don’t see why we have to pay the same rate of tax on my overtime? At least the percentage that goes towards unemployment should be taken off.
People that work get punished and seem to get nothing for helping the economy.
I chose to do overtime as my wages don’t cover the high living expenses and yet get punished by this, giving my money to people, majority speaking, cannot be bothered to work.
My tax on my notional pay should be enough, my overtime should be mine, please lower the tax rate on overtime

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

21 Feb 2018 Petition opened for signatures
27 Feb 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12
Status Rejected
Rejected 27 Feb 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.