Petition · past parliament

Use 19-20 tax return in self employed furlough scheme.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Use 19-20 tax return in self employed furlough scheme to help young self employed people to go through this crisis too, and not leave them with no money and no covering of their monthly and daily cost of life during the lock down.
Use 19-20 tax return in self employed furlough scheme to help young self employed people to go through this crisis too, and not leave them with no money and no covering of their monthly and daily cost of life during the lock down.

Add it to the scheme as soon as possible for us to have something to leave on .

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/

Timeline

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