Question follow-through · 7921
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling the financial contributions of independent schools to state academies to be offset against VAT liability.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling the financial contributions of independent schools to state academies to be offset against VAT liability.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
The department understands that, in line with schools’ charitable objectives, private schools do not typically charge for partnership work, meaning it is outside the scope of VAT. Whilst the government keeps all tax policy under review, there are currentl...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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