This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Petition Tax reduction to offset 50% of household service costs i.e. Builders, cleaners, gardeners
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Introduce a replica of the Swedish system. Which works like this: when you employ a builder, painter, gardener, electrician etc to work on your primary residence, you can claim a tax reduction of 50% of the labour costs, up to £5000 per year per homeowner. Introduced as a temporary measure to stimulate the economy, they soon realised it was self funding as it made cash-in-hand almost obsolete.
Everyone benefits. Cheaper services for homeowners, more jobs for tradesmen, and a huge reduction in undeclared transactions meaning more tax revenue for the government.
This petition closed early because of a General Election
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