Petition · past parliament

Please extend self assessment deadline by 2 months to March 2021

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The government has helped a lot of sectors but accountants and book keepers have suffered as well. You have help limited companies by extending their deadline by 3 months please do the right thing and extend the self assessment to 31 March
The government is here to help the general public and with the current situation where one us has suffered one or the other, by extending it 2 months you will be helping a lot of people

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 which calls for the same action: Extend the deadline for filing 2019/20 self-assessment tax returns

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Timeline

4 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
11 Jan 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 11 Jan 2021

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