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.

Maybe just my industry then. Loads of contractors not paying their way and earning ridiculous day rates. There is a very fine line in my experience between tax efficiency and avoidance. Indeed the latter has been encouraged by an accountant to my friend starting their own business.

I'd say those who have children at private school are responsible for the majority of the tax revenue in the UK.

No.

But I just wanted to say to Xenia, i've disagreed with so much you may have said over the years but you were always in my mind when I was a SAHM years ago.

I returned to work part time and then full time. A few months back I was offered a big promotion and I was going to turn it down due to childcare and feeling like I needed to be there more for the DC. I didn't in the end and I thought to myself at the time 'what would Xenia do'!

Anyway back to school fees, lolz, no they don't

Yeah nope.

Not in the UK. Maybe in some other country

Hang on, yes you're all correct except if the child is attending a fee-paying school at which one of the parents is also a teacher. In that case, the school fees will taken out of the parent's gross salary (probably at a discounted rate).

(Thanks, Joce. It sounds like the right decision under the Xenia principles of maximise the money women earn and everything else goes better..... I am certainly not an oracle but am old in the sense my youngest are at univesity now so it does give you a bit more long term perspective).

Mrs S is right - for one of my children at prep school where his father taught we had to 15% of the fees only (that was the lowest allowed under tax law under th case of Pepper v Hart before it becomes a taxable benefit - the 15% was the marginal cost of adding that child to the school so I think the school would work out your net pay and then take off the in our case 15% of the annual fees which you were paying - so you were paying them gross however not net but paying a reduced value. If instead you were given 100% of the fees then English tax law says that becomes a taxable benefit in kind and you would be paying your 20% or 40% tax on that benefit. The 15% only is generous. Lots of private schools make you pay more like 80% or 75% of the fees or offen no discount at all for teachers so it pays to shop around. The best set up we found was a teacher couple one at our school - the wife - so they had 3 children with only that 15% each to pay from age 3 to 13 and then they moved to the father's boarding school and again only paid the 15% poluys the family had free housing and board at the school too. if you cost that out 3 children x 3 - 18 school fees and housing for 20 years etc the parents' wages plus benefits do start to compare with many other professional jobs.