Private Education: Fees and Charges

(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue that would be generated by introducing VAT on private school fees.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
This question was answered on 6th July 2017

Private school fees are currently exempt from VAT. This is in line with EU law, which does not enable us to apply VAT to all private school fees. Until we have left the EU, the UK will remain a member of the EU with all of the rights and obligations that membership entails.

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