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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
It's akin to VAT on private schools; watch that backfire.
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There has been/will be a lot whinging from the small number of people affected by this but let's face it, they have had a free ride here for so long. The tax free train is coming to a stop on this one.
In the "free market" paradise many of these people adhere to, there is no subsidy if you choose to not use the default, free option. In fact, the funny thing about this is that these are the very same people have meekly accepted the large increases of private school fees in the past:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a7023056.html
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Over the past 25 years private school fees have risen by 550 per cent. But consumer prices in that time are up only 200 per cent
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I did not hear them whinging then ...
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Originally Posted by Chris
I know no such thing - all you’ve done is throw in another lazy trope. Nobody’s talking about rinsing rich people so they’re not rich any more. And VAT on school fees is the very least they should be doing. Without clear and specific evidence of charitable purpose, private schools should be losing their charity registrations as well. No organisation charging customers £30 a year for its services is a charity unless it can explicitly prove otherwise. And that proof needs to be much more convincing than a small handful of bursaries for carefully-screened individuals.
Built-in tax dodges for those with the least reason to be dodging tax in the first place have got to stop.
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Please can we have more Chris's on this forum
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Wrong. IHT does not rinse rich people. It rinses will beneficiaries at the lowest end of the IHT wealth scale. Once again it's the ordinary folk who pay through government taxation by stealth.
Why are the detractors of my view not making the distinction between rich and ordinary?
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Please define "ordinary" for the basis of this discussion