‘Challenging policy’: What the pushback to private school VAT plans reveals Politics VAT… easy as ABC? It may not quite be Blair’s ‘education, education, education’ mantra, or Michael Gove’s multi-academy trusts. But for Sir Keir ‘my-father-was-a-toolmaker’ Starmer, there’s been one education policy that’s been front and centre of his manifesto and the first 100 days. This is, of course, the plan to impose VAT on private school [...]
Fears grow about Labour’s private school VAT raid Politics According to analysis published by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) last week, there was a 1.7 per cent drop in the number of children attending private school in the last year.
‘VAT? What VAT?’: Private school boasting it will absorb Labour’s tax hike propped up by Chinese investors Education Adcote School, an indepedent school for girls, courted controversy in April for funding a motorway billboard saying "VAT? What VAT?"
Private school VAT furore shows just how much help our state schools need June 27, 2024 VAT on private schools has been slated as a "tax on aspiration" - but why don't we focus on making state education aspirational?
Imposing VAT on private schools could be a net cost for the Treasury, research suggests May 20, 2024 John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "VAT on private schools is a clear cut case of a policy gimmick that will do grievous harm to families with potentially pathetic results for revenues."
Will it work? Taxing private school fees March 28, 2024 It’s an election year. Politicians are giving us a barrage of policies. But we often forget to ask the most important question: will they actually work? In this column Sam Fowles take policies on their own terms and asks whether they solve the problem they’re supposed to solve. Labour’s pledge to end the VAT exemption [...]
What the modellers don’t tell you about taxing private school fees March 20, 2024 The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ claims that the policy will raise money do not take into account the unintended consequences – economic models rarely do, says James Price I often tell people that the best way to make God laugh is to tell Him your plans. This is at least in part because the most [...]