Our shared response is here (74.4 KB) written so you don’t have to. But the more worker co-ops that respond directly the greater our voice.
TDLR: Employee Owned Businesses get a tax benefit worker co-ops don’t get and we are asking for it to be extended to worker co-operative societies as well.
Action you can take
Download (and read!) workers.coop and Co-operatives UK response here
Attach and Email this response to: asres.consult@hmrc.gov.uk by 11.00 pm on 25 September. Add your support in the email by saying something like:
“[your co-op] is a worker co-operative business registered in the UK and we fully support the response of workers.coop the federation of worker co-ops and Co-operatives UK attached to this email.”
We’ve emailed them from Common Knowledge. We are also not technically a FCA registered cooperative society, but eh. We are coop by the ICA definition and the lived reality of it all!
Have emailed from Suma. I would generally say the more people email the better, it’d be better they get more coops emailing, that might not quite fit the brief, than we accidentally send less support.