Vat Question????????

[Anoth]

Can I ask a silly question??
We have been given our school fees for 24/25 academic year now for the school my daughter attends.
My question is if labours policy comes in half way through an academic year will the schools be allowed to put the fees up for the remainder of that academic year? Eg if we start paying X amount on September and then labour get in and introduce the added vat in October. Will the fees go up in Jan of that academic year? Normally fees remain un changed for the whole of the academic year once fees have been published but I understand this is a strange situation!
Just wanted to know if I need to prepare to save more for 24/25 fees just in case or will these that are now published still remain until the end of July 25??.
Thanks!

‘Having a well educated population is beneficial to us all.’

hallelujah! Some common ground. We just disagree on how to achieve that.

private schools are businesses - they aren’t going anywhere. They choose what they charge so their customers will have to negotiate prices with them.

That’s what it comes down to.

As are private nurseries, private care homes etc. Therefore the same argument applies.

And private healthcare. Around £46bn is spent on private healthcare per year. If we were proposing VAT on that, would people be saying “well, suck it up, just use the NHS instead”? What benefit would that serve the NHS? Surely it’s a good thing for pressure to be taken off the state system? My family member who has recently decided to pay a large amount of money for a private joint replacement means that someone else has had their NHS operation quicker than they would have otherwise done.

They can’t charge VAT on private healthcare. It is no longer just rich people who get private healthcare policies through work using it. It now includes my local corner shop owner who is spending thousands on his wife without insurance because she has been left for months of agonising pain by the NHS.

Similarly, there are thousands of children in private education who have been failed abysmally in state schools. This policy will result in all sorts of inequality claims in courts and under human rights legislation as well. It is a complete mess and doesn’t make financial sense. And they have SEN statistics for the private sector. Every public exam requires it and most are sitting some form of GCSEs. Private school parents just need to get themselves organised.

Haven’t rtft but Didn’t Canada ban private medical insurance?
Should we do that after private education?

Germany gives you income tax relief if you use either private education or private healthcare. Why don’t we follow that route instead?

Many countries either provide tax relief* for private education, or some form of voucher towards it.

No country in the world taxes education.

There's a reason why

*as in, actual tax relief, an actual subsidy, not the VAT exemption that people here are inaccurately calling a "subsidy". Obviously, the countries that do provide tax relief also don't tax education