![]() Researchers’ best-case scenario found that VAT on school fees would raise £1 billion a year, or £600 million less than Labour has claimed. Researchers noted that Labour’s calculation also does not account for the likelihood that some children would have to move to the state sector if VAT was imposed.Ī recent survey of parents by the Independent Schools Council found that private schools could lose at least a fifth of their pupils if 20 per cent VAT was added to fees. Private schools that have built new swimming pools, sports halls, music and drama studios, laboratories or lecture halls could be able to recover VAT that they have incurred on major building or refurbishment projects under the HMRC’s Capital Goods Scheme, it said. ![]() The most expensive schools are likely to be the least impacted by the policy because wealthy parents could pay more fees in advance to avoid the policy and boarding school accommodation is exempt from VAT, the report warned. However, researchers have claimed that the policy would raise far less, and possibly none at all.ĮDSK, an education think tank, traced back Labour’s claim the policy would raise £1.6 billion to a study published over a decade ago and found that the calculations had mistakenly included over 50,000 pupils who were being educated in state-funded schools.Ī report by the think tank also said it believed that the £1.6 billion calculation included adding VAT on fees for privately educated nursery-aged children, which is not Labour’s policy. ![]() Labour’s private school tax raid is based on flawed calculations and could raise no money, a think tank has claimed.Īdding VAT to private school fees is a flagship Labour education policy which it has repeatedly claimed would bring in £1.6 billion a year to invest in state schools. ![]()
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