Vat on Independent school fees?

[Worsleyweb]

Politics of envy or the correct thing?

Interested to hear opinions?

 

[bluesmith]

Politics of envy or the correct thing?

Interested to hear opinions?

Unless I'm missing something you dont usually pay fees for Grammar school?

Edit - title changed from grammar to independent.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

I think you mean Independent school fees. Great idea. All state schools have to pay VAT.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Do grammar schools still exist?

 

[TinFoilHat]

I think you mean Independent school fees. Great idea. All state schools have to pay VAT.

Make Eton pay their share and all. "Registered charity" my arse.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

If you pass the eleven plus you go to grammar state funded, quite a few schools in Trafford I think

 

[BrianW]

Freedom from VAT and charitable status are effectively state subsidies. Anyone on the right of politics should abhor state subsidies, except, perhaps, for essentials. Private schools are not essentials and if the fees go up parents will just have to work harder, cancel Netflix and drink fewer lattes. These schools should stand on their own feet.

I find that people who dislike the state funding stuff have a strange habit of making exceptions to suit their own needs.

BTW I would remove charitable status for lots more things too. Anything remotely political for starters.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Abolish charitable status and charge VAT.
Level the playing field.

 

[mosssideblue]

Fine by me. Why should they be VAT exempt

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Abolish charitable status and charge VAT.
Level the playing field

And fucking build on it. A few of these institutions of entitlement going out of business would free up some land for new housing developments.