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To Rishi Sunak - Chancellor,

Open letter text

Dear Mr. Sunak,

We were the newly self-employed, we have been left out of any support schemes during this crisis.

Through no fault of our own we are facing unprecedented hardship during this crisis, we've all now filed our 2019/2020 self-assessment. For the fourth grant, please update the criteria for SEISS support to include people who traded in 2019/2020.

We have tax records and are known to HMRC due to our unique tax reference number, and also through our previous PAYE records. We don't think it is right to continue to exclude a huge number of newly self-employed from access to any funding on the premise.

All we ask is that we are treated fairly and on parity with others that have received help during this crisis, we are hard working tax paying citizens and have poured all our savings into starting up our businesses and need financial help urgently.

We are asking Rishi Sunak to review the SEISS criteria to include newer self-employed on the basis of their 19/20 tax return.

We are looking to Scotland and note that this can be achieved, and we are asking of the same support in England. We will be the employers of the future that will help build this country back up, but only if the government is willing to step in and help us survive as businesses, as households and as families during this most difficult time.

There must be justice for the newly self-employed, show us that you value the contributions we have made and will be making in future.

Yours sincerely

Self-employed people around the country

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Warren Clarke
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Philip Miller
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Surinder Singh Dhamija
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Samir Benabdelhai
Ash Ayub
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Charlie-Thistle Cameron
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Tim Sanders
Kelly Hayhoe
Colin Paterson
Marcelle Davies
Andrea Creary
Darren How’S
Hayley Ball
Patricia Margaret Hammond
Elizângela Soares Antonino
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Rishi Sunak: Let us use our 2019/2020 tax return to get 4th self-employed grant

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