L’aumento delle tasse sulle scuole private del Labour è destinato a raccogliere più fondi del previsto
Labour’s private school tax hike is set to raise more money than expected
di HadjiChippoSafri
L’aumento delle tasse sulle scuole private del Labour è destinato a raccogliere più fondi del previsto
Labour’s private school tax hike is set to raise more money than expected
di HadjiChippoSafri
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I thought every kid in private school was going to flood into the state system and cripple it though??
Are we supposed to celebrate that we’ve squeezed more money out of young families? Just so we can put WFA into millionaire pensioners’ pockets.
Disclaimer: I do not have children in a private school but I do want our birth rate to go up.
It’s not a tax hike, it’s closing a loophole – the first of many that need to be sewn up.
But the British media spent months repeatedly arguing that this would devastate private schools, they would all close and all the pwecious pupils would be forced to attend state school with commoners.
How can this be?
No, you don’t say that companies pretending to be charities while having a shit ton of money might have misrepresented the effects?
>Some had warned the policy would force students out of private school and into the state system, and whilst this has happened to an extent, councils in March said there had been “no obvious impact” on applications for state sector places.
You mean, people with lots of money, actually could afford to pay after all?
What happened to all those struggling working class families, on measly six-figure salaries, who were going to go bankrupt?
I thought the rich were all going to Dubai because of this?
This is the second* positive Labour story I’ve heard today – what’s happening? Something is seriously afoot! (Or maybe they’ve *finally* hired a PR team?)
*The other being Starmer has already completely smashed Johnson’s prior investment in levelling up the North
[https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/10/exclusive-starmer-outspends-johnson-on-levelling-up-in-first-year](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/10/exclusive-starmer-outspends-johnson-on-levelling-up-in-first-year)
Good! That’s more money to spend on state secondary school kids.
It’s October why are we referencing things councils said in March? That was 7 months ago.
Don’t give them any more ideas. A nasty and short sighted policy. Labour is for the shirkers and not the workers.
But how much VAT was reclaimed by the schools for capital / building projects.
The analysis of the total VAT reclaimed the schools, the VAT netted by the govt and the (if any) reduction in private school places (with subsequent state school increase) at the end of the government will be interesting.
If labour do not secure a second term, I can see labour may have just given a tax rebate to the schools at a net loss to the government.