To think that improving state schools needs people to pay an e.g. a state school tax?

It is taxed! Via stamp duty and council tax, both of which are based on property value

There 👏 is 👏no👏 such 👏thing👏as👏road👏tax👏.

VED is essentially a polluter pays, not user pays model.

I think they need to spend the taxes they already raise far more wisely. There need to be far more stringent checks to ensure money doesn't end up filtered off as easily as it seems to be currently.

People clearly embarrassing themselves - she isn't wrong.

Do you mean vehicle tax? Many cars are zero rate, mine is £20 a year.

....and the entitled and privileged bubble comments continue on this thread.

How many billionaires do you think there are in this country ?. And if you were that wealthy , then you'd just leave, wouldn't you !!!!!. Besides most of their wealth is held off shore, spread though numerous shell companies and private investments. Their not stupid.

Privileged wasn't the adjective that immediately sprung to mind.

You still benefit enormously from the fact that there is a free education system and that there is health care for people who can't afford private health care.

Wouldn't be against a council tax surcharge on properties above a certain value in catchment areas of outstanding schools that is used to fund other schools in the area.

We pay taxes. They go towards education.

Not enough. But they manage to find the money for their mates.

Proper accountability would be a better thing.

And why should state school,users pay 20% VAT. They've not chosen to buy an alternative education.

Perhaps when those who can afford to pay for independent education are forced to use the state system there will be improvements because the 'right people' suddenly care?

There are 171 billionaires in the UK. All of whom have the easy ability to leave if you over-tax them.

Expecting them to contribute more to the education of ten million children is unrealistic. Even if we taxed them £1.2m more each, per year, and persuaded them to stay in the UK, that would provide £20 per pupil. That won't go far, will it.

We need to think of something a little more sensible.

Did you go to state school yourself?

Ex council home. Do you own it?

I don’t want to pay for your kids! I’m a higher rate tax payer, don’t use the nhs or state schools. How much of money do you actually want?

And before you start calling me every name under the sun. Not too many years ago I was homeless. Call me privelaged. I dare you.

I'd like to see how people that privately educate their children deal with private schools absorbing the VAT and having to make cuts to the service.

It is taxed via SDLT? Or are you proposing another tax on top?! How are you going to prove that the house is only worth more because of the school?

This thread is already nuts.

Of course rich people pay a lot of tax, they're the ones who have purloined all the money!
The more money you have the greater your ability to hide it away so that you don't pay any tax on it🤬

Roads are covered by road tax which you pay for every vehicle so there is already an additional charge to users.

YABU - If you are not using state schools you are directly benefitting from of people having access to them, as it should be in a civilised society This is for everything from healthcare to collecting your rubbish and everything in between.

I think there should be a premium land value tax on homes within the catchment areas of naice schools.

We live in a small ex-council semi in a grotty area of town where the catchment school and all other potentially accessible schools are crap, with low aspirations and very poor records on pupil safety with virtually no one getting into good universities. A house of the same size in the naice area of town with an outstanding comp that regularly gets top results and high levels of acceptance at top universities would be about £250,000 more expensive so obviously only the wealthy can access that privilege. I would like to see that £250,000 of bonus property value taxed to help pay to bring the struggling schools up to scratch.

We all benefit from an educated population and we all benefit from the best minds for each area coming through.
Unfortunately our state education system prevents that because it doesn't tackle literacy issues properly or help students with maths issues and can force out of education those with autism and so on.

This!
Those who say 'I don't have any children so why should my taxes fund schools' are not thinking things through at all.
Without a free education how would we fill the roles in society that need to be filled? Children are not a hobby that parents have for their own amusement they are the next generation of people. They are the ones who build our society going forward. We need everyone to be educated so that we can all benefit from their talents and abilities.

As long as we’re going to start charging an entrance fee at A&E, a booking fee for the GP, a comprehensive toll system covering all main roads…

The point of the tax system is that there are certain things which benefit the country as a whole and we shouldn’t have to pay based on our individual circumstances but our earnings.

It's proper Mumsnetty isn't it? I love watching parents get their knickers in a twist trying to justify private schooling here. The lies they tell themselves to justify it too. Proper bonkers.