Petition · past parliament
Change the Law For the Child Maintenance calculation for company directors
Rejected
16 signatures
What the petition asks
Use the annual company profit to calculate child maintenance where the absent parent is a company director irrespective of how they pay the profit to themselves.
Many absent parents are paying themselves nominal amounts as company directors through the PAYE system when they employ themselves thus avoiding child maintenance payments. They then pay themselves dividends from the company profits which are not currently used for maintenance calculations.
Why it was rejected
It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure whether you want all company directors, including those whose income is not directly based on company profits, to be covered by this, and if so how this would work.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
We're not sure whether you want all company directors, including those whose income is not directly based on company profits, to be covered by this, and if so how this would work.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
Timeline
| 21 Oct 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 1 Dec 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
16
Status
Rejected
Rejected
1 Dec 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.