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Post by oracle75 on Jul 11, 2023 7:53:37 GMT
VAT is supposed to be waived for those organisations given charitable status.
How can this apply to private education fees paid by the higher earning families?
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 11, 2023 10:35:50 GMT
I dont think VAT should be charged for any education service.
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Post by oracle75 on Jul 11, 2023 10:39:53 GMT
Does anyone know of any charity work done by fee paying schools?
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 11, 2023 10:43:17 GMT
They all give bursary's to disadvantaged pupils..
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jul 11, 2023 10:52:24 GMT
Private schools should be given tax relief since every pupil in one is effectively easing the strain on the state education system.
Indeed, every time someone opts to use a private service in lieu of a state provided one, be it health, education or whatever, they should receive tax relief.
Fair's fair.
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Post by Vinny on Jul 11, 2023 11:16:27 GMT
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Post by dappy on Jul 11, 2023 11:33:38 GMT
Tax revenues have to be obtained from somewhere. Most people accept that they wish taxes to be sourced progressively. Its hard to understand why private schools, whose customers are generally affluent, are given a tax break (without being rather cynical about the motivations of the politicians who awarded it). Yes of course this tax break should be abolished and the money raised used to help ordinary kids.
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Post by Vinny on Jul 11, 2023 11:46:52 GMT
Tax the income of the parents.
SIMPLE.
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Post by dappy on Jul 11, 2023 11:58:45 GMT
Tax the income of the parents. SIMPLE. Are you suggesting that VAT should be abolished in its entirety or do you wish it to be levied only on goods ordinary people buy and not those exclusively bought by richer people? |
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Post by Vinny on Jul 11, 2023 12:03:04 GMT
I don't like VAT at all.
In every application from VAT on foods, to VAT on fuel, it comes across as a regressive tax.
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Post by dappy on Jul 11, 2023 12:08:58 GMT
VAT raises about 16% of all Government revenues (c. £160bn). If you want to cancel it, how would you replace that revenue?
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Post by wapentake on Jul 11, 2023 13:52:20 GMT
No it shouldn’t be vat free,they’re not a charity.
It’s not just them charity is an industry in this country and needs an overhaul,charities shouldn’t have CEO’s on mega salaries and still cadging when they have massive assets,like the CofE and the diocese which are exempt from so many taxes and always pleading poverty yet have assets of £22 billion.
Anyway buying your kids a better education is a purchase like any other so pay the vat.
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jul 11, 2023 13:58:36 GMT
Tax the income of the parents. SIMPLE. I'm sure that we already do. And the wages of the staff. And any profits made by the school.
Given that state schools are stretched and over crowded we should encourage as many as possible to go private.
Same with healthcare. Going private should be incentivised, not punished.
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Post by Vinny on Jul 11, 2023 14:32:32 GMT
VAT raises about 16% of all Government revenues (c. £160bn). If you want to cancel it, how would you replace that revenue? Corporation tax. Capital gains tax. Income tax. And what I would do with VAT is to reduce the basic rate of VAT to 8% |
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 11, 2023 17:09:29 GMT
No it shouldn’t be vat free,they’re not a charity. It’s not just them charity is an industry in this country and needs an overhaul,charities shouldn’t have CEO’s on mega salaries and still cadging when they have massive assets,like the CofE and the diocese which are exempt from so many taxes and always pleading poverty yet have assets of £22 billion. Anyway buying your kids a better education is a purchase like any other so pay the vat. So you would impose VAT on private healthcare? |
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