Why has Sunak deliberately excluded 3m from COVID support?

[Louis Balfour]

Martin Lewis was speaking about this again on the Marr programme this morning.

Evidently, he asked Sunak directly "Can I tell all company directors that the door is permanently closed to them?" To which the answer was "yes".

[Louis Balfour]

So is the consensus that, with regard to directors and dividends, the lack of support is a kind of punishment for not paying optimal tax?

[Louis Balfour]

spanky3 said:

Surely the answer to the original question is the one pointed out on the second page: if you compensate directors/contractors who have lost dividends you have to compensate everyone who has lost dividends.

Not really. They need only need to insert a test something like "You conduct work directly for the company and dividend income from it accounts for 50% or more of your income".

It would be easily achieved, if he wanted to do it.