State of the Market

[Smartie]

My daughter has a tutor and I have no idea actually if we pay VAT or not. Wife looks after it. But if they now have to charge VAT as well (I thought they already did - maybe wrong) then so be it.

As usual, this depends on the business supplying your tutor. If they are registered for VAT then you will pay it, if not then you won't.

[TheDude]

That's the crux of the issue, mnay parents give up that list and more to get their kids a decent education simply because they value education more than than others and are prepared to make those sacrifices.

Rubbish.

There are plenty of parents who value education and can't afford private schools. Their sacrifice is devoting their time to help them achieve the best they can.

People send their kids to private school because they think they are buying them a place at the top table.

If they are struggling to find an extra 20% of VAT then they were never welcome there in the first place.

[Snooky]

What about them? Have their parents given up drinking, smoking, tattoos, takeaways to donate to their school? Let me know when they do, then we'll talk about how such children are my responsibility.

When you're a retired old misery instead of a working one, and spending your days watching Gbeebies and writing angry red-faced comments on the Daily Mail website articles, "such children" will be the ones still working and paying tax so that all the services and infrastructure you'll continue to rely on, but complain incessantly about, can be provided to you. Hope that helps answer your question, given that you seem to lack the most basic understanding of how a society functions.

[SussexSeagull]

Bearing in mind private schools can also claim VAT back on bills, I would question why they all seem to be passing the whole 20% to the parents.

[SchumiStars]

I paid my university course fees through my tax code ~2004 IIRC. It saved me a further 25%. Very sure this is now not possible.

Clearly the children of parents who can afford the £60k per year for Eton would have companies setup to reduce tax burden.

It's the foreign money that they are trying to attract, although charging locals for existing infrastructure has always been a good earner.

I did read somewhere that the government wants to introduce a charge for the A5 flyover staples corner. The poor people will have to use the roundabout underneath.

[dx4100]

Bearing in mind private schools can also claim VAT back on bills, I would question why they all seem to be passing the whole 20% to the parents.

Yup, its why its a lot of tired arguments. In the end its bums on seats, the private schools still need to fill places and will adjust their business model to make sure that continues. Its a lot of hot air.

[BlueSharp]

Rubbish.

There are plenty of parents who value education and can't afford private schools. Their sacrifice is devoting their time to help them achieve the best they can.

People send their kids to private school because they think they are buying them a place at the top table.

If they are struggling to find an extra 20% of VAT then they were never welcome there in the first place.

Rubbish, that's the same rubbish logic being trotted out by the Labour Party. That may be true for the very top private school but it's not true for the vast majority of the rest. SEN, military families, poor state options, specialist education like Music, Sports, Art, Dance, religious choise; Are all valid reasons not just the mytical privilege argument.

[BlueSharp]

Yup, its why its a lot of tired arguments. In the end its bums on seats, the private schools still need to fill places and will adjust their business model to make sure that continues. Its a lot of hot air.

The bulk of their costs is staff which is not VAT claimable. Its not just VAT but also the removal of business rate releif.

[mogga71]

Very happy with Labour so far...

Clobbering private schools, taking money off pensioners who don't need it, increasing taxes on companies rather than workers and apparently HS2 coming back to life.

The sort of people who moan about this stuff are the very problem in our society and enabled the Tories to run this country into the ground over the last 14 years.

....increasing taxes on companies rather than workers ? Considering you are on a Contractors Bulletin Board and most of those people here are on 'Outside' contracts surely you will understand that a lot of people will be disagreeing with this statement as charging Employer NI on a so called 'disguised employee' is a ridiculous enough .... but then increasing it is just taking the absolute pi$$.

I don't actually care who is in power as I know that all any government can do is akin to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. The point of no return came many years ago. I will be amazed if Labour get a second term though .... I think they have come to power at precisely the wrong time and anything they do will do will go down like a lead balloon. The vast majority of this mess came via the Consevatives who let the Country down so badly and nobody is turning that around.

[simes]

Had a good chat with an agent recently that I thought repeating for a chuckle. My context is 'naff all for the last 12 months'. Agents' context is one of enduring hardship.

'You've sent your cv in for this role. To be honest, I thought I would give you a call because I didn't want to seem biased.'
'Biased?'
'Yeah, you've not worked for a year even though the Telco sector has been dead for that time.'
'Well, with my Telco based CV, that then might explain that right there. But I have been productive in other things but that which might confuse if placed on a Telco cv...' (It included voluntary PM work in other sectors.)
'Oh I haven't got the luxury of time to listen to all that.'
'Ok.'
'I've been doing this for some time and I just think your lack of doing PM work will work against you.'
'So, you call me to tell me you're not biased, but finish this call by Being biased...?'

Click.