Remove NI and Tax deductions from NHS frontline staff during COVID-19

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Enact a temporary change to the taxation system to allow all NHS frontline staff to benefit from 0% tax and NI contributions during the COVID-19 pandemnic.

Whilst many have now benefited from furlough and had much of their income saved by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, these workers are putting themselves more at risk than anyone else, often working in less safe environments and longer hours, whilst primarily there to save the lives of 10,000s throughout the country.

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: Incentivise NHS staff during the COVID19 outbreak by making wages untaxable

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

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

16 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
1 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Jun 2020

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