Folks, good morning and thanks for accepting my participation in this important network.
I am sure you are all as outraged as I am around the Contractor Loan Charge and the application of Retrospective Taxation Our national media appears to turning a blind eye to the whole issue, only regional media is actively drawing attention to the tragic loss of life.
If you agree please support my in my Change Org Petition below, this call on Boris Johnson to support clause NC31, I am at almost 500 signatures, your own will make a big difference.
https://www.change.org/Loan_Charge_killing_People_Lets_Save_Lives
Yesterday I published an open letter to both Parliament and the House of Lords, call for change, this morning on Twitter @smt2264 I posted the open letter below calling for action.
Thanks for your support!
Dear National Media
8th July 2020
7 Lives Lost to Suicide Due to Loan Charge – Please stop enabling Government to bury this story
As media outlets you are correctly calling out the exceptional work of our NHS Hero’s and this morning you correctly called out a risk of paid parking returning.
However, you are deaf to the plight of thousands of NHS Workers caught up in the Loan Charge legislation. These are amongst the lowest paid workers in society. These are people who do not have the means to repay, these are people who will be driven below the poverty threshold in order to repay an unjust debt to HMRC.
As a nation if we correctly want to celebrate our NHS Hero’s! While being silent to a sub-set of thousands, this government have caused through no fault of their own to be caught in a retrospective tax trap. Why is a £5 per day parking more newsworthy, than the Loan Charge?
Our very own Prime Minister owes his life to the very people he celebrates in one breath while enabling HMRC to make crippling financial demands in another. How can such duplicity remain unreported by mainstream media?
Seven lives have been lost to suicide thus far! These are lives considered by Jesse Norman, Boris Johnson and many more in Government to be an acceptable level of collateral damage! This is utterly operant given the cross-party support given within Parliament to the Suicide Prevention Plan published in January 2019 and for amendment NC31. As national media outlets, your silence in this issue is denying so many a voice, making you complicit in this loss of life!
The retrospective application of tax law is utterly unacceptable; you can't penalise people for acting within the tax laws after the event. Those impacted by this acted upon advice given by QC's confirming these schemes were compliant with the law at the time as did HMRC.
Thousands of people are at risk of, losing their home, personal bankruptcy, breakdown of marriages and long-term partnerships and many will be driven into despair and suicide. Is this not the very essence of a worthy news story?
Please act and please help save lives.
Warm regards Shaun Taylor
[email protected]
I am sure you are all as outraged as I am around the Contractor Loan Charge and the application of Retrospective Taxation Our national media appears to turning a blind eye to the whole issue, only regional media is actively drawing attention to the tragic loss of life.
If you agree please support my in my Change Org Petition below, this call on Boris Johnson to support clause NC31, I am at almost 500 signatures, your own will make a big difference.
https://www.change.org/Loan_Charge_killing_People_Lets_Save_Lives
Yesterday I published an open letter to both Parliament and the House of Lords, call for change, this morning on Twitter @smt2264 I posted the open letter below calling for action.
Thanks for your support!
Dear National Media
8th July 2020
7 Lives Lost to Suicide Due to Loan Charge – Please stop enabling Government to bury this story
As media outlets you are correctly calling out the exceptional work of our NHS Hero’s and this morning you correctly called out a risk of paid parking returning.
However, you are deaf to the plight of thousands of NHS Workers caught up in the Loan Charge legislation. These are amongst the lowest paid workers in society. These are people who do not have the means to repay, these are people who will be driven below the poverty threshold in order to repay an unjust debt to HMRC.
As a nation if we correctly want to celebrate our NHS Hero’s! While being silent to a sub-set of thousands, this government have caused through no fault of their own to be caught in a retrospective tax trap. Why is a £5 per day parking more newsworthy, than the Loan Charge?
Our very own Prime Minister owes his life to the very people he celebrates in one breath while enabling HMRC to make crippling financial demands in another. How can such duplicity remain unreported by mainstream media?
Seven lives have been lost to suicide thus far! These are lives considered by Jesse Norman, Boris Johnson and many more in Government to be an acceptable level of collateral damage! This is utterly operant given the cross-party support given within Parliament to the Suicide Prevention Plan published in January 2019 and for amendment NC31. As national media outlets, your silence in this issue is denying so many a voice, making you complicit in this loss of life!
The retrospective application of tax law is utterly unacceptable; you can't penalise people for acting within the tax laws after the event. Those impacted by this acted upon advice given by QC's confirming these schemes were compliant with the law at the time as did HMRC.
Thousands of people are at risk of, losing their home, personal bankruptcy, breakdown of marriages and long-term partnerships and many will be driven into despair and suicide. Is this not the very essence of a worthy news story?
Please act and please help save lives.
Warm regards Shaun Taylor
[email protected]
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