News Round-Up
27 April 2024
by Toby Young
The Green Agenda Will Lead to Civil War
26 April 2024
by Ben Pile
The so-called Conservative party has mooted removing non-dom tax status as a way of raising more tax revenue. It's unlikely to work, says Mr Chips. Focusing on creating value would be a much better place to start.
As Labour plans to hike private school fees by slapping 20% VAT on them, will overstretched state schools even be able to squeeze in the tens of thousands of pupils predicted to be pushed out of the independent sector?
Keir Starmer has claimed Labour's policy of slapping 20% VAT on private schooling will raise £1.7bn in tax revenue. But no evidence supports that claim because it fails to allow for pupils leaving for the state sector.
On school choice, the rest of the world is moving in the right direction, while Labour proposes the opposite. But the UK even funds private schools for poor children in Africa. So why not here?
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is wrong to assume that Labour's school fees tax grab won't make private education unaffordable for many, an economist argues.
An economics teacher at a private school has looked at Labour's proposal to raise £1.7 billion from charging VAT on school fees and concluded it won't in fact raise any money.
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