Private school tax breaks a ‘luxury’, says Phillipson

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1. More of this to come with the anti success, pro freebie party in power

   Hope they’ve prepared school places for all the kids who will be leaving private…oh yeah…course they haven’t lol

   Makes me so glad by the day to have left this sinking ship of a country, whilst those still on the titanic pay off my UK mortgage

2. Calling it a tax break is so disingenuous and frustrating. The govt doesn’t have some magical right to add 20% on to every penny you spend, the fact they can add tax on top of all the other tax they claim is a luxury for them and they should be grateful to get it.

   Besides that the vat system works based on categories and historically when govt was more intelligent it was supposed to be luxury items that were taxed. All education services were exempt from vat, ranging from university fees to private tuition and including private school fees. They weren’t getting a special break but now they are getting a special tax.

3. I wonder how people feel about the EU’s Principal VAT Directive (Directive 2006/112/EC); staunchly outlining education, including private, not to come within the remit of VAT.

   There must be a sudden uptick of Brexiteers around these parts?

   Also love the additional bullet we’re shooting into our foot, potentially disadvantaging ourselves from income from foreign private school students (https://www.farrer.co.uk/news-and-insights/diplomats-international-schools-and-vat-on-private-education-a-question-of-reciprocity/).

   Death by crab mentality, as is the British way.

4. They want everyone to have the same indoctrination from public schools!

5. Why the fuck are Rich private schools allowed to be registered as Charity’s in the first place. It makes a mockery of the whole tax system the rest of us have to pay into.

6. I think it’s a positive. It will keep good schools reassuringly expensive and keep out those pesky aspirational types.

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