Rejected petition Economic Reform for Black British Subjects

Rejected on 13 July 2020

Black British subjects should be:
Tax exempted
Reimbursed Tax
Compensated

Britain abolished the slave trade but only after 200 years of benefiting from it.

British slave owners were then compensated with 20 million pounds in 1833 (40% GDP), which in todays money equates to 17 Billion pounds.

As this was such a large sum of money and the government were unable to pay this, they raised bonds. British tax payers only finished paying off these bonds in 2015.

The compensation request is due to the government paying people who owned other people.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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Reimburse tax payers for monies used to compensate slave owners: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325300

Refund taxes used to pay slavery abolition debt to British descendants of slaves: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325536

Pay Slavery Reparations to all Caribbean & African Descendants: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325237

Legislate for the provision of reparations to communities affected by slavery: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325529

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