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Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of imposing 20% VAT on school fees on exports.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
29 Jul 2024
Answer
2 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of imposing 20% VAT on school fees on exports.

  2. 29 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Aug 2024

    Answer published

    As the Chancellor announced on 29 July, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training supplied by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20%. Boarding services closely related to such ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Private Education: Special Educational Needs

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30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time was for an organisation to become VAT registered with HMRC in the last 12 months.

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Private Education: VAT

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish guidance for independent schools on (a) VAT registration and (b) operation of the new system for VAT on school fees.

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Private Education: VAT

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Private Education: VAT

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what communications she plans to issue to smaller independent schools on the proposed application of VAT to private school fees.

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Private Education: VAT

4 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the maximum number of pupils that could move from independent to state schools for there to be a net increase in revenues to the Exchequer arising from her policy on levying VAT o

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Further Education: VAT

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5 Sept 2024 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the imposition of VAT on independent school fees on the number of children who are home schooled.