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@Fowler09IsGod @GayTory VAT is not a luxury tax and never has been.

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@OldknowPhilip @BBCPolitics Private schools have always paid tax, including VAT. In fact, now they pay less because they can reclaim vat on expenses. Facts are important.

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@ShakinthatChalk You reckon that happened with the hour a week a typical private school provides as swimming lessons? Or do you think the students who won got up early, trained with a local swimming club and did well through dedication and effort?

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@cptndemocracy64 @JeremyVineOn5 @thejamesmax @FamilyLawGuruUK I think you’re being a little disingenuous there. The school I believe you’re referring to only teaches 3 subjects…

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@s0cialdemocrat @jrkdenison And it was not a ‘loophole’. It was a deliberate exemption for a merit good activity, which had existed since the advent of the charity sector.

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@s0cialdemocrat @jrkdenison Independent schools have always paid VAT. Now they can reclaim it. Parents pay VAT. Schools now collect it on behalf of HMRC.

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@Tee_capm IMPACT player. Open the ears

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@pajuiken 🤡

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@AndyMcDusty @WheresTommyV Laws. Not rules. 😂

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@schneiderhome Patients are given the choice to have a surgery in a private facility or an NHS one. The cost to NHS is identical for both. Except the NHS doesn’t bear the capital costs of buying the machines and real estate to deliver an increased number of procedures and cut waiting times ✅

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@schneiderhome The rates paid to private companies for cataract surgeries are the same as those internally paid to NHS hospitals for the same treatments. Private companies build the facilities to deliver those surgeries and take the risk that there aren’t enough patients to make a return.

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@Edwards72Sue @OllyMetcalfe Are you ok paying VAT on your child’s nursery fees then? And their sports clubs? University fees? VAT is not a universal tax - there have always been totally rational exemptions, including the education of our children.

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@will____iam____ @OllyMetcalfe How is not charging a tax on something unfair? Unless another group of people pay that tax for the same service. Which they didn’t.

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@A1Mhigh @OllyMetcalfe What was the tax advantage of going to private school? What tax didn’t private school parents pay which state school parents paid?

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@SurreyCricBlog @craigmrosie Guess you just missed the point. By your logic, you asked the government to fund the summer holiday you used to happily pay for. Get it yet?

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@CTWhite80 @craigmrosie VAT is not a luxury tax. Never has been.

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@GummuUmu @RpsAgainstTrump I guess they’ll be moving into those empty, fully-tooled factories with supply-chains already in place which are scattered all over the United States? How long do you reckon they need? two weeks? Sounds good.

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@Kiree10 @vivamjm @RuffDollyAI Was it? You did very well to hide it…

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@valle77a @vivamjm Yes you could. That’s not what this story is about.

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@Kiree10 @vivamjm @RuffDollyAI We don’t have national ID cards in the UK