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  • VAT on school fees looking like it won't be applied from Sep 2024, more likely Sep 2025, giving people (and schools) a year to work out what they are doing.

    https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/vat-on-private-school-fees-could-be-in-kings-speech-as-labour-finalise-agenda-3136488

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    She [Rachel Reeves] is expected to say that the change will not take effect until 2025 at the earliest and will not be applied retrospectively – although The Daily Telegraph reported that Labour is planning to close a loophole which some parents are trying to use to avoid the prospect of higher fees, whereby they pay several years’ worth in advance at the current rate.
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  • A sensible and pragmatic decision IMO. Two months is not much time, and if it goes wrong that would be blowback on Labour in the first 100 days. Not good.

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