Take into account 2019/20 tax year for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme doesn’t take into account the 19/20 tax year, meaning if you started a business in the 18/19 tax year and made more income from a previous employer that year even though the following tax year (19/20) you have a whole year self employed you are not entitled.

New small businesses are getting no support just because they started a business at the wrong time. They have had successful 19/20 tax years what isn’t even looked at even though they pay their taxes.
People have been made redundant in 2018/2019 forcing them to go into self employment and it’s unfair that they suffer more due to uncontrollable circumstances.

Why it was rejected

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

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Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns
Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns

Timeline

29 Jul 2020	Petition opened for signatures
6 Aug 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Department HM Treasury

Rejected 6 Aug 2020

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