schools fees - do they come out from salary before tax?

[schooling123]

I wonder if private school fees come out from salary before tax? Thank you.

Why would they?

Yeah, why would they?

Haha, no they are from net income.

(Sorry I genuinely don't know, but I just can't see why they should be tax free?)

Why would they?

I get childcare vouchers before tax, but that's a scheme to give a hand to get parents working.

Lol, cross post. At least I got in a face.

No tax relief on school fees for parents.

Nope, it's from your net. And don't forget they'll increase every year, anything from 5-12%, depending on what new sports hall or performing arts centre or boarding house they want to build to keep up with the rest.

Of course not.

Are you thinking about continuity of education allowance paid for by an employer e.g. for armed forces personnel with children at boarding school?

I think it is taxable, but sometimes the employer will pay the tax on behalf of the employee.

Apart from that all school fees are paid from after tax income.

Thank you for replies.

Hahaha! NO .... it's a choice I've made, I pay out of my salary each term.

Nope. I pay from net income.

Lol I wish..

If only (26k to pay next week!!)

No tax relief on school fees for parents

Except for VAT...

Good they’ve got that charitable status, isn’t it?

It would be lovely but no. And let’s be honest, parents that can afford private school fees aren’t the top of the tree when it comes to tax cuts. What amazed me more though is when my parents were telling me about tax relief on mortgage payments back in the day. I’d love that! (Obviously there are clear reasons why it was dropped).

They used to so people got their tax relief. Not for many years though. In some countries they do. In others, private schools will get the government funding and the parents only pay a top up.

They should as we already pay twice for stae schools via taxes and then the private schools but "Big State tax us all to the hilt Giovernment" never does the right thing on this kind of thing so no it is after tax.

Even in the 1960s by the way when my parents paid school fees there was no tax relief in the UK on them.

When tax rates were up to 65% + there used to be some ways to covenant money to relatives and claim the tax back but that has long gone. Even in the 1960s you could not do that with money for school fees or to your children.

The whole paying twice things makes me laugh. There will be a big chunk of parents of kids at private schools NOT paying their fair share of tax, due to tax dodging.

Hahahahaha, dream on.

NMot really. Most people at private schools are on PAYE and tax is taken at source. It is a bit of a myth that the UK is full of tax evaders. it is particularly galling for those of us who pay masses otax and yet people think we evade it all. The UK Is a very tax ompliant place compared to many nations.

Amusingly it was the Labour party under Tony Blair who introuced a voucher you could set against private school fees when your child was 4. I had it for one year for the twins. It was/is only for children that age. Good for him - let us have more of that......

Meanwhile I await my medal for Corbyn for services to socialism because I pay £50k a year (£25k per twin) to ensure my twins graduate without student debt even though msot of that debt students will never pay back and instead tax payers like I am will be funding it. We all need to do our bit to maximise tax revenues - all part time working women perhaps should get back to full time work for the good of the country.