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To: Theresa May - Prime Minister
Stop Child Maintenance Evasion
Stop child maintenance evasion by closing the loophole that allows parents to avoid paying child maintenance by starting their own businesses
Why is this important?
If the government are talking abut huge companies using tax havens to evade paying their fair share why are we not talking about child maintenance evasion?
This effects so many struggling parents. Even parents who are on benefits need to pay child maintenance, but affluent parents evade paying by 'starting up their own business'.
On many occasions this is a tactical move and we need to protect our children by changing the 'no child maintenance' requirement for parents who have left their salaried job to start their own business and therefore have to pay ZERO.
Mothers and fathers will understand this legal loophole in which they lawfully do not receive child maintenance from their child's non-resident parent. By starting up their own business and hiding their money in someone else's account (i.e their partners) and not putting their earnings through HMRC the Child Maintenace Service say they do not have to pay maintenance due to not having a taxable income or savings.
The government need a different method of assessing maintenance to plug this hole.
Our children's lives should be supported by both parents and if the non-resident parent does not morally believe they should then the government should legally require them to.
