Privatschulen, Schüler und ihre Eltern verlieren das historische Oberste Gerichtshof, um die Arbeit zu verhindern, dass die Arbeit in die Schulgebühren einführt
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/vat-private-schools-pupils-parents-lose-historic-high-court/
Von ThatchersDirtyTaint
23 Kommentare
Should we charge a luxury tax on a luxury? What a conundrum, let’s ask these rich people here.
Yes because private school IS a luxury product and you shouldn’t be getting benefits from the rest of us to subside it. Having money to raise frivolous court cases just confirms this…
Private school should be banned full stop.
Make state school the only option. Ensure funding per child is equal across the country.
Overnight it’ll get the elites fighting for better opportunities for working class northern kids for once.
Cannot see a single reason why they deserve special treatment.
There was widespread opinion that this case was doomed from the start. I think it was more about the publicity than the outcome https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/05/02/the-private-school-vat-challenge-weak-arguments-but-radical-consequences/
It’s a bit much to stick “pupils” in the headline. I don’t think the kids had anything to do with this suit.
>The various families also said it was „discriminatory“, either because their child has special educational needs
I’d be more than happy for state school spending to go up to accommodate kids with needs better.
AWWWW BOOOO FUCKING HOOOOO. Rich kids can eat shit like the rest of the nation
Tarquin has to pay a bit more to keep his little darling away from those working class ruffians? Diddums, cost of living crisis and its time they took a share of the pain
I went to a private school. My parents worked bloody hard to keep me there, even through some bad financial times. It was a luxury, and one they made sacrifices for. They worked hard, and I worked hard to make the most of it.
But it IS a luxury, there’s no denying that.
Sure, it makes life easier, but a motivated child with a stable and secure home life and supportive parents will excel in whatever environment.
I find it hard to care abput the imposition of VAT because it had never occurred to me tgat the fees did not attract VAT in the first place.
Taxing education is taxing the future. Another government kicking cans down the road instead of dealing with budgetary problems today!
Totally agree, we should tax nurseries and universities as well.
My colleague has teenagers running around with machetes in her neighbourhood and as a single mum put her kid in an affordable private school to make sure he didn’t get into local gangs.
It’s people like her kid who suffers, not Beaumont the III or some Al Saud princeling
Good.
It’s only the ultra rich we want going to private school.
Not these plebs.
Commenters celebrating this obviously aren’t clued up with the follow-on pressure this will give to state schools. You’re deluded if you think the VAT raised is going to be earmarked to support them.
Good
Such entitled rich people.
Private schools are a parasite on our country’s education system, and causes worse outcomes overall
I think this is a dumb ideological decision made mainly to pander to Labour’s class war obsessed extremists.
But I don’t doubt the government has the authority to impose it.
This seems like a waste of the court’s time and the litigant’s money.
Should be means tested. People that work their arses off and spend everything to get their kids into private education, let them off. Middle-class and up – tax the bastards. Maybe they’ll have to go on only 3 holidays a year instead of 4, or downgrade the leased Bentley 4×4 to a Range Rover.
You can see exactly the type of people they are from the photo. The wheelchair kid was a nice touch tho.
Politicians should have to send their kids to state school by law. Then they’ve got an incentive to improve them!
Education shouldn’t be a business, but if you insist on making a business out of it then you should be taxes just like any other business gets taxed
I am not opposed to vat being charged. However there will be plenty of families who already struggle to afford the school fees and that 20% increase may mean they aren’t able to afford to send their children to private school.
I have always been on the side of being opposed to private schools but as a parent I see that many resources are simply not available in the state sector and that sometimes parents are compelled to choose certain private schools due to their child’s learning needs. Will vary by local authority. Parents can push to raise standards, demand obligations are fulfilled, but that can only go so far in reality.
So now I do understand parents that feel penalised by the VAT as they are already paying extra for services just not available in their state school. Perhaps the solution is to allow provision for children these learning needs to have some exemptions.
Weird how parents of private school kids are always just making ends meet.
It’s a bit like landlords are always „one of the good ones“.
Good, it is a luxury, pretty sure they wouldn’t have complained this much if it wasn’t for the fact that this money will go to „those other people“