Vat on Independent school fees?

Blue Maverick said:
My niece is 23, she moved out a few years ago with her boyfriend rented a flat down oldham rd near miles platting, rent was about £800 a month, landlord got greedy and upped it after a year to £1100! She moved back to her mum and dad’s with boyfriend in tow. They stayed for around 8 months then decided they wanted to ive to the city centre, rent is around £1200-1300 a month. So instead of saving for a deposit whilst living at her mums they are now blowing close to £15k a year in rent! They could’ve bought a house in Oldham (ye I knew not the best) near her mum for around £120k. Get on the ladder and then move up, but she like many see what others in socia media have and want that lifestyle, she could’ve been paying half that in a mortgage and having a better life, ut she knows better will get to her 30s and be fucked, what happens to all these renters when they retire, unless they have huge pensions they’ll never afford a decent place to rent, but they live for the moment these days and don’t seem to care about their futures.
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Quality post that pal, nail on head.

She’s funding someone to own a house they can’t afford without her rent.
 
On our local news just now a local school complaining about the VAT - One parent interviewed said "adding VAT to fees will make it unaffordable for normal(sic) families "

Just looked them up - fees are five and a half grand PER TERM. So if you have two kids there you are finding £11k per term to school them. Do these people not watch the news do they not understand the real world? Normal my fucking arse
 
bluethrunthru said:
maybe cut a few horses and ditch the vineyard and you don't have to pass on the VAT

www.mirror.co.uk

Private schools attended by Tory top team sitting on £500m in cash reserves

Despite Tories complaining private schools are at risk of poverty, the posh schools they went to enjoy fully staffed horse-riding departments, shooting ranges, golf courses and a vineyard
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk
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But how would you know if a sommelier is pulling the wool over your eyes and where will the future modern pentathletes come from ?
 
meltonblue said:
That’s a bit of both of them being at the wrong salary I think.
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I suppose Eton, like any charity, is entitled to pay its senior management whatever it feels it needs to and what the market commands, whereas the PM’s salary is from public funds and set in a different manner, but yes, as I said the contrast is insane.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I suppose Eton, like any charity, is entitled to pay its senior management whatever it feels it needs to and what the market commands, whereas the PM’s salary is from public funds and set in a different manner, but yes, as I said the contrast is insane.
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Be interesting to know how many old etonians have become headmaster vs pm. I’m assuming more of the latter!
 
meltonblue said:
Be interesting to know how many old etonians have become headmaster vs pm. I’m assuming more of the latter!
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Having just checked, of the last nine headmasters, which cover the last 100 years, two were educated at Eton. Five PMs were over the same period.

Of the remaining seven headmasters, of those that were educated in England (five) all went to other, top tier public schools: Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Sherborne and Winchester (where the current headmaster went to school).

I guess if your career is within the public school sector, then headmaster at Eton has to be the top job doesn’t it?
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Having just checked, of the last nine headmasters, which cover the last 100 years, two were educated at Eton. Five PMs were over the same period.

Of the remaining seven headmasters, of those that were educated in England (five) all went to other, top tier public schools: Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Sherborne and Winchester (where the current headmaster went to school).

I guess if your career is within the public school sector, then headmaster at Eton has to be the top job doesn’t it?
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the "PM of public schools" as it were?
 
In the dim and distant past, I played rugby union against a public school. We had to get a minibus to the pitch from the changing rooms. Later we were given a 3-course lunch with beer, despite being about 14. How the other half live..
 
metalblue said:
Not sure she’s wrong TBH.

Under EU law it’s considered illegal… we are no longer in the EU so…

That doesn’t mean it’s automatically legal with the current court cases looking to prove it breaches ECHR law in the coming weeks/months.
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Might be the final straw for echr if the posh twats take it there
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I imagine anyone with the means to push a case to the echr will be though.
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As I understand it the challenges are;

1 is funded by the council of private schools,
1 is funded by some religious nuts group
1 has been crowd funded.

So none have been funded by an individual although I imagine a few legal bods would send their offspring to private school.
 
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