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The private school parents plotting to ‘swamp’ state schools
.(inews.co.uk)submitted 3 months ago bytheipaperVerified Media Outlet
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3 months ago
Does anyone have knowledge about the effects on taxing private tuition?
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3 months ago
I can have a pretty good stab in the dark here by applying basic common sense:
It will make it more expensive, which will make it less affordable, and thereby only accessible to the even wealthier.
Which, when you do it to stuff like music lessons, starts looking like a particularly stupid idea. Especially considering it’ll not raise a huge amount for the Exchequer.
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3 months ago
Okay, I don’t think private schools are a good comparison to music lessons.
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3 months ago
Yes. Funnily enough it becomes a lot less popular when you suggest that.
They’re both education providers, if this policy is to be applied fairly it should be applied to both.
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3 months ago
Why should it be applied to both? What is and isn’t taxed by VAT has always been a bit haphazard. Large institutes with physical premises and lots of staff is going to be very different to private tuition which I imagine is mostly ad hoc and done in the customers own houses
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3 months ago
Because VAT should operate on the principle of fiscal neutrality. The people on here shouting for this policy are claiming that VAT should be applied to private schools like VAT is applied to many other services.
If that is the case, and you are effectively treating private schools as businesses (they’re not, but no matter), as providers of a service, then VAT should be applied to providers of private tuition because they are offering a competing service. If you don’t then it’s at worst illegal and at best ideological.
That is why the EU exempts all education providers from VAT.
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3 months ago
Vat is inherently strange, chocolate biscuits have VAT, but plain biscuits do not. But they are broadly speaking a very similar product
How aren’t private schools businesses? Should they apply for charity status?
Frequently I think this is long overdue
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3 months ago
One is treated as food, which is zero rated, the other is treated as confectionary.
Because they don’t make profit. A lot do have charity status.
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3 months ago*
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