VAT on Private School Fees & Removing the Charitable Rates Relief for Private Schools - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p>
Draft VAT legislation has also been published alongside this technical note. A technical consultation on the legislation and technical note will run from 29 July 2024 until 15 September 2024.<\/p>"}
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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 a supply will also be subject to VAT at 20%. Any fees paid from 29 July 2024 pertaining to the term starting in January 2025 onwards will be subject to VAT. Furthermore, where a school in England has charitable status, the government will legislate to remove their eligibility to business rates charitable rates relief.<\/p>
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<\/p>
The government will confirm the introduction of these tax changes at Budget. A Tax Information and Impact Note will be published alongside the Finance Bill once the independent Office for Budget Responsibility have scrutinised and certified the impacts of the final policy.<\/p>"}
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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 a supply will also be subject to VAT at 20%. Any fees paid from 29 July 2024 pertaining to the term starting in January 2025 onwards will be subject to VAT. Furthermore, where a school in England has charitable status, the government will legislate to remove their eligibility to business rates charitable rates relief.<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p>
The government will confirm the introduction of these tax changes at Budget. A Tax Information and Impact Note will be published alongside the Finance Bill once the independent Office for Budget Responsibility have scrutinised and certified the impacts of the final policy.<\/p>"}
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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 a supply will also be subject to VAT at 20%. Any fees paid from 29 July 2024 pertaining to the term starting in January 2025 onwards will be subject to VAT. Furthermore, where a school in England has charitable status, the government will legislate to remove their eligibility to business rates charitable rates relief. This is intended to take effect from April 2025, subject to Parliamentary passage.<\/p>
<\/p>
The teaching of English as a foreign language will not be affected by these changes and will continue to be exempt from VAT.<\/p>"}
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The selling of timeshares is outside of Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulation and therefore outside of the remit of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which can only consider complaints about FCA regulated activities. Where consumers have purchased a timeshare using a product regulated by the FCA, such as consumer credit, they may have recourse to the FOS if that product was mis-sold.<\/p>
When complaints are made to the FOS, these should be dealt with in a timely manner. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook, which sets out the rules on how the FOS should handle complaints, states that \u2018the ombudsman will attempt to resolve complaints at the earliest possible stage\u2019.\u202f\u202fIn its Plans and Budget 2024-25, the FOS has set itself the target of resolving 90 per cent of cases within 6 months and the government will continue to hold the FOS to account on this through its regular engagement with the FOS.<\/p>"}
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The tax gap is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and the amount that is actually paid. In 2005-06 the tax gap was estimated to be 7.4% (£32.4bn). The latest estimates, published in June 2024, show the tax gap at 4.8% (£39.8bn) in 2022-23.<\/p>
The government is committed to tackling the tax gap, through increasing HMRC's compliance staff, investing in HMRC\u2019s technology infrastructure, and making policy changes to tackle tax non-compliance. The government will set out further details at the budget.<\/p>"}
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The statistics requested can be calculated for a typical worker on the minimum wage using the following data sources: average hours from ONS dataset HOUR01; inflation from ONS CPI series D7BT; historic Income Tax liabilities from HMRC, \u201cIncome Tax Personal Allowances and Reliefs\u201d; historic National Insurance liabilities from HMRC, \u201cMain Features of National Insurance Contributions\u201d.<\/p>"}
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As the Chancellor set out in her statement on July 29, there is a forecast Resource DEL overspend of £21.9 billion against the plans set out for departments at Spring Budget 2024. This already factors in the Treasury\u2019s assessment of a £7.1bn fallaway over the course of the year, as set out in Table 1 of Fixing the foundations: public spending audit 2024-25.<\/p>
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This Government is committed to restoring ODA spending at the level of 0.7 per cent of GNI as soon as fiscal circumstances allow. The Government will set out its approach to the House in due course.<\/p>"}
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