What can I do?

There are a few things you can do to help the campaign, and we'll be listing them here with timetables for co-ordinated action.

In the meantime, we urge you to write to your MP asking them to oppose the measure and to sign the Early Day Motion asking the Government to reconsider its position using the guidelines set out in this paper here

Make sure you, your family and friends all sign the e-petition on the Downing Street website, which is now in the top 30 petitions.

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Smiley  - EDM   |2008-02-22 11:42:25 I received a very nice letter from my MP today (a senior Conservative) who has agreed to sign the EDM and to encourage other Tories to do so, including front benchers. Already I've seen the signatures jump by over 20, so perhaps we can get a little bit of extra momentum.

Bill  - What? Me worry?   |2008-02-15 05:56:54 Hopes fading fast? This is the government which brought you the Hunting Act, IR35, and the retrospective reinterpretation of S660A. None of these has had any impact other than costing the general taxpayer a great deal of money. Undeterred, our moral custodians continue to posture in the wake of the Arctic defeat, but with proposed legislation which amazingly is even more poorly framed than its appalling predecessors. If the country wants to pay for this...

Concerned Contractor  - Backing Down   |2008-02-14 06:15:00 Hearing the news that the chancellor has backed down on the "Non-doms" tax is both a funny and sad story. Funny in that the HMRC has yet again shown that most of the tax raising ventures they've embarked have not been thought through at all. Sad in that the HMRC will become more determined to succeed in pushing through the other tax raising ventures one of which is this Family tax.:-(. Hopes are fast fading away.

Dave  - Soft Target   |2008-02-12 21:47:23 We have to accept that this is a Government that is desperate to increase tax revenues and we are seen as (yet another) soft target. PAYE employees will wonder what all the fuss is about, yet we have seen attacks on our Pensions, the chaos of the CGT proposals and now this. Isn't it great being an entrepreneur in Brown's Britain?! The beauty of their proposals, of course, is that they are set out in such a way that we appear to in the wrong when we have been acting...

David mItchell  - Transferrable Allowances   |2008-02-06 20:29:50 Of course this whole problem wouldn't have arisen if the government hadn't removed the ability to transfer unused tax allowances between partners. Perhaps the FAIREST solution is to enable unused tax allowances to be transferred to 'lifetime' partners (I would say spouse but one has to be equality minded...). This would then recognise the contributions made by non-working partners to the ability of everyone to do their jobs whether in a 1 person or 1000 person c...

Colin  - EDM   |2008-02-06 14:56:06 For goodness sake can more people get in touch with their MPs to sign the EDM, having only 55 signatures I doubt it will even make it to the floor for debate. Note very few Conservative signatures. Every one should encourage theirs ASAP. To find out who it is follow this link (most of them have contact pages. http://findyourmp.parliament.u k/commons/l/

Marc Neilon  - Lack of press   |2008-02-02 16:24:26 What really surprises me is the lack of coverage this subject is getting in the press. The new legislation is likely to effect many thousands of families and yet I have personally seen very little. Why is that? Perhaps the fact rermains that anyone not effected, i.e. bona fide employees, simply thinks we've had it coming and had it too good!

Juan Rodriguez  - Europe   |2008-02-02 16:24:53 Coming from a European country I have been enjoying the unique conditions of the UK in terms of business, free thinking and a non-nonsense approach to politics. But I am affraid the UK is slipping into the bad practices of countries like France, Italy or Spain. It has to be stopped.

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