Tax breaks are fine imo - it takes stress off the state schools anyway, why should parents have to pay for schools they're not sending their kids to twice (income tax and tax on private schools) rather than just once?Labour conference: Any tax rises under Labour will be fair - Starmer
The Labour leader says he can't rule out tax rises if Labour wins power, but working families won't be hit.www.bbc.com
Honestly I always thought Private Schools got taxed for some reason
(Some of the comments about this from around the internet are interesting "We need levelling up not levelling down" is a common one, but the same people would complain about any tax rises to help fund said level up...)
Private schools are run as a business. This argument is basically saying the wealthy can spend more on private services and then avoid the tax burdens of everyone else. You are taxed not based on usage. I barely use the NHS, have never used the police or fire services and certainly haven't used the military and yet my taxes fund them so why should the wealthy not have to pay taxes simply because they don't use the service? It's not an argument.
Of course it would get passed on to the parents and most of them are in a financial black hole anyway.
It's no different to anything else. The business I work for pays taxes, they then pay me my salary and I pay taxes on my salary. I then buy something and pay tax on that so in essence the money I use to buy stuff that has VAT has been taxed 3 times. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, it's proposing taxing the profits of private schools, the same as any other. It's no more double taxing than any thing else.
I wonder how much we could reduce the cost of Univeristy education by taxing private schools. Obviously couldn't fully fund itLabour conference: Any tax rises under Labour will be fair - Starmer
The Labour leader says he can't rule out tax rises if Labour wins power, but working families won't be hit.www.bbc.com
Honestly I always thought Private Schools got taxed for some reason
(Some of the comments about this from around the internet are interesting "We need levelling up not levelling down" is a common one, but the same people would complain about any tax rises to help fund said level up...)
Tbf I'd be fine with giving it to BUPA etc. Security firms are a little different I think.
Problem is your only a few steps to lets make services **** to encourage people to take the strain off the state. Why do consecutive conservative governments fail at being trusted with healthcare and education? Because regardless of actual beliefs/circumstances they aren't seen as having a vested interest in making those services good.
Had an ex private school teacher for my GCSE years (before that I had 3 years of not even a dedicated English teacher) went from a predicted D grade to gaining a B. He left after those 2 years to back to private school....
Localised panic buying, it makes sense once one fuel station runs out in an area people run to the nearest one that focuses even more pressure. We drove past 5 stations on Saturday 3 were massively queued and 2 were closed. We actually picked up fuel at one of the closed ones yesterday morning at a reasonable time.
