Simplistic linear thinking by Rachel from Accounts and the Treasury spawned this Budget from hell, says David Craig. A systems thinker would have known it would send the economy into a doom loop of recession and decline.
The Government’s VAT raid on private schools risks costing the taxpayer up to £1.8 billion as parents cut their work hours once their children move into the state sector, a report has found.
Does introducing VAT on school fees in the middle of the school year show Keir Starmer's cruel indifference to parents and children? Or that he just hasn't thought it through? asks Mr Chips.
Keir Starmer’s planned VAT raid on private schools is likely to breach human rights law because it singles out private education for the levy, a senior lawyer has said. The Left gets entangled in its own Blob.
In what looks likely to be the first of many private school closures as a result of Labour's VAT raid, Alton School in Hampshire has shut its doors, sending its pupils scrambling to find places in the state sector.
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.
