# Add your voice to our response to Governement
**URL:** https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581
**Category:** News and announcements
**Tags:** call-to-action
**Created:** [11 September 2023 11:02 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581 "2023-09-11T11:02:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@AthertonJohn](https://forum.workers.coop/u/AthertonJohn)
#### Post date: [11 September 2023 11:02 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/1 "2023-09-11T11:02:54Z")
Workers.coop and Co-operatives UK have been working together on a response to a Government consultation on the [Taxation of Employee Ownership Trusts and Employee Benefit Trusts](https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/taxation-of-employee-ownership-trusts-and-employee-benefit-trusts).
Our shared response is [here](https://forum.workers.coop/uploads/short-url/1PQRZ4nkLFsq32zss6JbE58ilKT.docx) (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**
1. Download (and read!) workers.coop and Co-operatives UK response [here](https://forum.workers.coop/uploads/short-url/1PQRZ4nkLFsq32zss6JbE58ilKT.docx)
2. Attach and Email this response to: [asres.consult@hmrc.gov.uk](mailto: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.”
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### Author:  [@lee\_essential](https://forum.workers.coop/u/lee_essential)
#### Post date: [11 September 2023 13:12 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/2 "2023-09-11T13:12:44Z")
I have emailed on behalf of Essential Trading!
All the best,
Lee
(Public Relations and Digital Marketing)
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### Author:  [@Lucy.humphrey](https://forum.workers.coop/u/Lucy.humphrey)
#### Post date: [12 September 2023 07:57 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/3 "2023-09-12T07:57:08Z")
I have emailed sharing Leading Lives support on this, thanks
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### Author:  [@gloria\_d](https://forum.workers.coop/u/gloria_d)
#### Post date: [12 September 2023 10:16 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/4 "2023-09-12T10:16:24Z")
John can any worker co-op sign onto this? We aren’t technically a worker co-op society ie not registered with FCA
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### Author:  [@scott](https://forum.workers.coop/u/scott)
#### Post date: [12 September 2023 13:22 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/5 "2023-09-12T13:22:52Z")
I’ve emailed on behalf of Greencity. Cheers
Scott
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### Author:  [@seanfarmelo](https://forum.workers.coop/u/seanfarmelo)
#### Post date: [12 September 2023 17:36 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/6 "2023-09-12T17:36:20Z")
I have emailed on behalf of Birmingham Bike Foundry.
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### Author:  [@alex](https://forum.workers.coop/u/alex)
#### Post date: [13 September 2023 08:33 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/7 "2023-09-13T08:33:04Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@AthertonJohn](https://forum.workers.coop/u/AthertonJohn)
#### Post date: [13 September 2023 08:34 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/8 "2023-09-13T08:34:15Z")
By all means show your support, but ask is only for Co-operative Societies not Companies,(less complex ask).
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### Author:  [@rossh](https://forum.workers.coop/u/rossh)
#### Post date: [13 September 2023 14:57 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/9 "2023-09-13T14:57:12Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@AbbyGF](https://forum.workers.coop/u/AbbyGF)
#### Post date: [14 September 2023 10:36 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/10 "2023-09-14T10:36:45Z")
I’ve done this for Stir to Action.
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### Author:  [@gloria\_d](https://forum.workers.coop/u/gloria_d)
#### Post date: [14 September 2023 16:05 UTC](https://forum.workers.coop/t/add-your-voice-to-our-response-to-governement/581/11 "2023-09-14T16:05:08Z")
Ok, I have sent an email from us stating that we are a co-operative but not a COWC and so are showing our support as part of the WCF.