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Treasury under fire over private school VAT ads

2 January 2025

10:26 PM

2 January 2025

10:26 PM

New year, same problems. Already Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is in the firing line again – this time facing criticism for private school VAT adverts. Now the Treasury has been accused of breaching impartiality for saying that Starmer’s move to apply 20 per cent VAT to private school fees ends a ‘tax break’.

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