Petition · past parliament
Open the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to those with 2019-20 tax returns
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
The COVID-19 Self-Employment Income Support Scheme is extremely helpful to many, but for businesses that did not trade in 2018-19 is out out of reach. Now that the 2019-2020 tax year has concluded, the scheme should be opened up to those that have submitted their 2019-2020 Self-Assessment tax return
When the scheme was announced the 2019-2020 tax year had not concluded, so it necessary to exclude it. Extra help was given to those who were late in submitting their 2018-2019 tax return by extending the filing deadline. Given that it is now possible to submit a 2019-2020 tax return (albeit earlier than normal), it is possible to calculate the support that a significant number of newly trading individuals require, whilst avoiding the potential for fraudulent claims which was a genuine concern.
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:
Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records
Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns: Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns
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/
Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records
Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns: Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns
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
| 14 May 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 1 Jun 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
1 Jun 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.