Campaign Goals
Our campaign seeks similar legislative changes to those in the US, which deliver tax fairness for small businesses - particularly the self-employed.
Private businesses are a vital backbone of a developed economy, with many of them consisting of self-employed, independent contractors and small businesses.
It's where individual initiative at the broadest base of economic activity creates vitality. By definition, the self-employed and small businesses are people earning their income by engaging in a commercial contract-based activity.
How a country's tax system is administered is critical to the success of a country's economy.
- Where a tax system's administration is fair, transparent, predictable and consistent, people can engage in economic activity with confidence and certainty.
- Where a tax system's administration is unfair, opaque, uncertain and inconsistent, risk exists, and people are wary of engaging in business.
The smaller the business, the higher the concern of even starting up because they are at the mercy of tax administrators.
The Taxpayer Fairness campaign argues that HMRC’s administration of the self-employed and small businesses is patently unfair, opaque, uncertain and inconsistent. But more, HMRC has been engaged for over two decades in a deliberate campaign to suppress self-employment in the UK. The damage HMRC has done and could continue to do to the UK economy is significant. It must stop.
A template for UK fairness
This campaign champions legislative changes similar to those required of the IRS by the US Congress from 1998 to 2019. It proposes that those US reforms offer a model for legislative reform of the UK tax administration to deliver tax fairness for small businesses—particularly the self-employed in the UK.
The US administrative laws focus on Taxpayer Rights to create a fairer, just, transparent and accountable tax administration system that enhances voluntary compliance, efficiency and revenue collection.
We recommend that the US fairness model offers a template for small business tax administration fairness in the UK. Such fairness can only be delivered through legislation. Specific detail of how the US template can be modified to fit UK circumstances is available.
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The campaign wishes to see better treatment for UK taxpayers, in particular small businesses and individuals.
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