Provide COVID support for newly self-employed when submitting next tax return

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Provide support, equivalent to the self-employment support grants, to self-employed affected by COVID-19 but not eligible before because the were not trading in 2018/19.

To help avoid fraud, use 2019/20 self-assessment to asses earnings for the year.

Too many self employed people were not eligible for the self employment support scheme because they were not trading in 18/19.

This has affected newly established traders, but also people who took time away from self-employment due to changes in circumstances, such as ill health, maternity/paternity leave, other caring responsibilities, financial strains, business relocation, training and education etc.

These people have slipped through the net and not received support during this crisis and should be considered for additional support when filing returns for 19/20.

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 this petition calling for the same action: Change the criteria for SEISS grants for 2019-2020 tax year traders

Timeline

1 Nov 2020	Petition opened for signatures
13 Nov 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 Nov 2020

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