Le scuole private, gli alunni e i loro genitori perdono un’offerta storica della High Court per impedire al lavoro di introdurre l’IVA sulle tasse scolastiche
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/vat-private-schools-pupils-parents-lose-historic-high-court/
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
17 commenti
Should we charge a luxury tax on a luxury? What a conundrum, let’s ask these rich people here.
Yes because private school IS a luxury product and you shouldn’t be getting benefits from the rest of us to subside it. Having money to raise frivolous court cases just confirms this…
Private school should be banned full stop.
Make state school the only option. Ensure funding per child is equal across the country.
Overnight it’ll get the elites fighting for better opportunities for working class northern kids for once.
Cannot see a single reason why they deserve special treatment.
There was widespread opinion that this case was doomed from the start. I think it was more about the publicity than the outcome https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/05/02/the-private-school-vat-challenge-weak-arguments-but-radical-consequences/
It’s a bit much to stick “pupils” in the headline. I don’t think the kids had anything to do with this suit.
>The various families also said it was “discriminatory”, either because their child has special educational needs
I’d be more than happy for state school spending to go up to accommodate kids with needs better.
AWWWW BOOOO FUCKING HOOOOO. Rich kids can eat shit like the rest of the nation
Tarquin has to pay a bit more to keep his little darling away from those working class ruffians? Diddums, cost of living crisis and its time they took a share of the pain
I went to a private school. My parents worked bloody hard to keep me there, even through some bad financial times. It was a luxury, and one they made sacrifices for. They worked hard, and I worked hard to make the most of it.
But it IS a luxury, there’s no denying that.
Sure, it makes life easier, but a motivated child with a stable and secure home life and supportive parents will excel in whatever environment.
I find it hard to care abput the imposition of VAT because it had never occurred to me tgat the fees did not attract VAT in the first place.
Taxing education is taxing the future. Another government kicking cans down the road instead of dealing with budgetary problems today!
Totally agree, we should tax nurseries and universities as well.
My colleague has teenagers running around with machetes in her neighbourhood and as a single mum put her kid in an affordable private school to make sure he didn’t get into local gangs.
It’s people like her kid who suffers, not Beaumont the III or some Al Saud princeling
Good.
It’s only the ultra rich we want going to private school.
Not these plebs.
Commenters celebrating this obviously aren’t clued up with the follow-on pressure this will give to state schools. You’re deluded if you think the VAT raised is going to be earmarked to support them.
Good
Such entitled rich people.
Private schools are a parasite on our country’s education system, and causes worse outcomes overall
I think this is a dumb ideological decision made mainly to pander to Labour’s class war obsessed extremists.
But I don’t doubt the government has the authority to impose it.
This seems like a waste of the court’s time and the litigant’s money.
Should be means tested. People that work their arses off and spend everything to get their kids into private education, let them off. Middle-class and up – tax the bastards. Maybe they’ll have to go on only 3 holidays a year instead of 4, or downgrade the leased Bentley 4×4 to a Range Rover.