Petition · past parliament

Give key workers 6 months tax-free incomes.

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

As essential workers supported everyone during these difficult times, they deserve to receive 6 months tax-free income as a thank you for all their hard work. This includes NHS staff, delivery drivers, shop workers etc.
Because key workers have been putting themselves at risk by ensuring everyone's basic needs are met.

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 some of these petitions:

Give all key workers a 100% tax and Nat. Ins. holiday through COVID-19 crisis: Give all key workers a 100% tax and Nat. Ins. holiday through COVID-19 crisis

Identify and reward all key workers due to Covid-19: Identify and reward all key workers due to Covid-19

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

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

Key facts

Signatures 15
Status Rejected
Rejected 1 Jun 2020

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