Labour’s private school tax raid ‘could cost taxpayer £1.6bn a year’
1 year ago

Labour’s private school tax raid ‘could cost taxpayer £1.6bn a year’

The Telegraph  

Labour’s private school tax raid could cost the taxpayer £1.6 billion a year if it forces a quarter of pupils into the state sector, a new report has found. Sir Keir Starmer’s party has made introducing VAT on independent school fees a flagship policy, claiming it would generate £1.7 billion to spend on state education. In its report, titled Short Term Thinking, the ASI said the £1.3 billion figure, as well as projections that only three to seven per cent of children would move to the state sector, failed to take into account higher inflation, fiscal drag and rising mortgages and house prices. Modelling by the ASI showed that Labour’s policy would raise no money at all if between 10 and 15 per cent of private school pupils migrated to the state sector.

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