Petition · past parliament

Make all redundancy payments to be tax free for this tax year.

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Currently up to £30,000 of redundancy pay is tax free. Given it is going to be a very difficult job market, all redundancy payments should be tax free for this tax year
It is going to be a very difficult job market, and we should help those made redundant directly.

Why it was rejected

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

Timeline

23 Sep 2020 Petition opened for signatures
16 Oct 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12
Status Rejected
Rejected 16 Oct 2020

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