Have your school shared VAT update?

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Just heard from ours, total increase will be 15%. This is on the top of annual increase of 4%.
Significant number of kids moving to grammar

Best by far! Well done to your school!

Pretty sure that means the headline figure is presumed to include VAT

legally, if a figure does not say ‘ex VAT’ (either next to it or in the contact somehow) then it is deemed to include VAT.

So does this mean whatever amount they confirmed with previous fees increases announcements that’s what we ”ll be paying for Jan onwards since we re starting school tomorrow and still don’t have news (hence we don’t have 1 term notice warning as per contract?)

St Helens Abingdon just announced 14% to be passed on from January. They’ve also extended the deadline for anyone who wants to give notice.

@HateMyRubbishBoss it’ll all depend on how they word things. They probably have an ability to revise fees for Jan anyway.

Wow some schools have been great about this

yes I tend to agree with lalalacrosse- they normally say usually fees revised annually and we will endeavour to provide one month’s notice.

I would argue you need clarity on the fee to provide the prescribed notice though.

Still nothing from our school either 🙄

One term not one month (!)

check your contract though- it may say that any fees advertised exclude applicable taxes as may be imposed now or in the future or it could be silent on the topic.

Exactly this.

Back to OP. Our school has sent out the fee letter weeks ago. 8% increase from January.

If we have to have bloody grammar schools, we should be adjusting the criteria to favor the top 10% or so of kids from less-well-off backgrounds. At least that way, some of the guff about “social mobility” might have some actual truth to it.

It's very frustrating for those of us who have honoured the requests for this thread to be kept only to sharing information about how schools are managing the new VAT legislation to discover posts like this from @starray "Unfortunately, there are many posters on here who really don't care if bright children lose bursaries or are deprived of grammar school places. They don't want clever children getting "ideas above their station".

Sorry @CurlewKate . I genuinely don't want to derail the thread and I have asked for my post to be deleted.

Letter received today. No VAT on tuition fee to be passed to parents in this or subsequent years. But introduced lunch fee of 300 per term. Prep school in Blackheath.

@SchoolDirector good result!
roughly what’s the termly fee?

Varies by grade but for Year 2 it's 6,261

Ours have just come through

10% for Spring and Summer 2025