Make key workers exempt from tax/PAYE on salary during the COVID19 duration.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

For the duration of the COVID 19 crisis, those people identified as key workers should receive as close to 100% of their gross pay as possible through the reduction/suspension of tax and PAYE on their salary.

Key workers are being asked to carry on working through this current crisis, risking theirs and their families health with no added reward, whilst those who are forced to stay home with loss of earnings are being subsidised 80% salary to do so.

This seems grossly unfair since key workers taxes are being used during this time to subsidise the salaries of mainly private sector workers.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Give all key workers a 100% tax and Nat. Ins. holiday through COVID-19 crisis

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

Timeline

21 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
2 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 Apr 2020

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