Labour using firearm licensing to pay for knife crime prevention

no this is evil and must be punished by VAT on fees.
cant say i disagree with vat on school fees, other than vat is a bit of a scam in its own right.
independant pest control companies have enabled most councils to stop offering pest control services, saving council tax. yet i still have to pay and collect vat for free
 
cant say i disagree with vat on school fees, other than vat is a bit of a scam in its own right.
independant pest control companies have enabled most councils to stop offering pest control services, saving council tax. yet i still have to pay and collect vat for free
then I hope you look forward to paying £500/£1000/£infinity for your firearms licence.
 
cant say i disagree with vat on school fees,
Really? Why?
Why is it right that a small proportion of schools have to charge VAT on their fees/income while the rest of them don't? State schools and universities are exempt. Education has always been exempt from VAT, because it benefits society massively (which is more than can be said for other things exempt from.VAT).
Labour has not presented a single coherent justification for this policy. The ONLY reason for this is socialist viciousness. It achieves nothing positive whatsoever, while imposing crippling costs on some families who are mostly not wealthy but responsible.
It's particularly disgraceful coming from a party led by a multimillionaire who refuses to pay health or educational costs when he can afford to, simply so he can virtue signal about being a socialist.
other than vat is a bit of a scam in its own right.
independant pest control companies have enabled most councils to stop offering pest control services, saving council tax. yet i still have to pay and collect vat for free
 
Really? Why?
Why is it right that a small proportion of schools have to charge VAT on their fees/income while the rest of them don't? State schools and universities are exempt. Education has always been exempt from VAT, because it benefits society massively (which is more than can be said for other things exempt from.VAT).
Labour has not presented a single coherent justification for this policy. The ONLY reason for this is socialist viciousness. It achieves nothing positive whatsoever, while imposing crippling costs on some families who are mostly not wealthy but responsible.
It's particularly disgraceful coming from a party led by a multimillionaire who refuses to pay health or educational costs when he can afford to, simply so he can virtue signal about being a socialist.
exactly. more bullying and jealously from labour targeting a small minority because they don't like the idea that people can have choice. its a shame they can't be content with the monopoly of 93% of the education market.

it is illegal to charge VAT on education in the EU and Germany actually gives tax rebates to parents of independent schools because they are removing the cost of their children from the state system.
 
exactly. more bullying and jealously from labour targeting a small minority because they don't like the idea that people can have choice. its a shame they can't be content with the monopoly of 93% of the education market.

it is illegal to charge VAT on education in the EU and Germany actually gives tax rebates to parents of independent schools because they are removing the cost of their children from the state system.
Quite right too. If that was part of the change here, it would have some sort of justification. Parents of private school kids do a massive benefit to the state system, not to mention that they've already paid tax at double the rate of most people on that money already.
 
Really? Why?
Why is it right that a small proportion of schools have to charge VAT on their fees/income while the rest of them don't? State schools and universities are exempt. Education has always been exempt from VAT, because it benefits society massively (which is more than can be said for other things exempt from.VAT).
Labour has not presented a single coherent justification for this policy. The ONLY reason for this is socialist viciousness. It achieves nothing positive whatsoever, while imposing crippling costs on some families who are mostly not wealthy but responsible.
It's particularly disgraceful coming from a party led by a multimillionaire who refuses to pay health or educational costs when he can afford to, simply so he can virtue signal about being a socialist.
Agree completely!

Our eldest went to private school for continuity of education as both of use were wearing uniform and highly mobile; this was paid for by the public purse with contributions from ourselves. When it came for our youngest to start secondary education, we had both had enough by then, I'd resigned and became a Civil Servant and the wife tried to stay as static at home as she could. We therefore picked up the entire cost so both children had equal opportunity - this came at significant cost. What I would also observe from both schools that our children used was that the vast majority of parents were of "modest means" and, like us with our second, made cuts and savings so that their children had the best chance that they could assist with in starting their lives. Whilst the school car park did have the ubiquitous Range Rovers and Porches, these were in the minority and a lot of parents were driving 10 year old plus cars, we a battered old Ford Galaxy. They were exercising a choice (and arguably right) to do their bit for their kids - to penalise them as @Apthorpe says is socialist viciousness!
 
Vote for high tax, centralised control, statist parties and you’ll get policies to match 🤷🏻‍♂️

Liebour and the CONservatives are two cheeks of the same arse and between them they produce more of the proverbial brown stuff than you’ll see just about anywhere.

We need a change and it’s not Labour. If you want to go left, go Lib Dem. If you want to go right, go Reform. That’s the ONLY way the two standing parties will understand we’re heartily sick of the both of them.
 
Some 'expert' on Times Radio last week reckons that Labour will win, but with the lowest voting percentage for years and years. However, they will win and Starmer will wreak havoc on the UK for 4 years.
 
I believe, perhaps wrongly, that a lot of private schools are registered as charities. Perhaps all charities should be VAT registered and pay sixth of their donations to HMRC. That might balance the goverment books!
 
I believe, perhaps wrongly, that a lot of private schools are registered as charities. Perhaps all charities should be VAT registered and pay sixth of their donations to HMRC.
Correct, which makes it all the more grotesque.

Labour's election campaign is an absolute disgrace where tax is concerned. What policies are revealed are disgustingly vile, and the rest concealed as though the taxpayer has no right to know how he's going to get shafted.

Meanwhile, in France the lefties are rioting because they are as bad as Trump and won't accept election results. The Tories have been ffffing useless, but it seems that's still the best it gets in the West.
 
exactly. more bullying and jealously from labour targeting a small minority because they don't like the idea that people can have choice. its a shame they can't be content with the monopoly of 93% of the education market.

it is illegal to charge VAT on education in the EU and Germany actually gives tax rebates to parents of independent schools because they are removing the cost of their children from the state system.
Perhaps its pay back time for the exceptionally arrogant attitude instilled into the pupils at Eton and Harrow schools?
 
Perhaps its pay back time for the exceptionally arrogant attitude instilled into the pupils at Eton and Harrow schools?

I know at least a dozen etonians and Harrovians they are good people! They are also not politicians so that probably explains it.

Anyone voting Labour needs their fac revoking on mental grounds. Let’s be honest here the tories are an absolute **** show and a large part of that is because liebour have been and will be so utterly **** that it’s allowed them to be. If we had a proper opposition this situation where we gave top sides of the same coin wouldn’t happen.

Resigned myself to the fact that the UK is going to be a cesspool for a decade which ever way it goes and the only hope is that I can retain all my wealth in the business then do a flit to somewhere at an appropriate time with hopefully a little more than before. Sad state of affairs when that’s your best plan.
 
Resigned myself to the fact that the UK is going to be a cesspool for a decade which ever way it goes and the only hope is that I can retain all my wealth in the business then do a flit to somewhere at an appropriate time with hopefully a little more than before. Sad state of affairs when that’s your best plan.

France may be an option if RN get their way. Not far to go.
 
Perhaps its pay back time for the exceptionally arrogant attitude instilled into the pupils at Eton and Harrow schools?

A tax on exceptional arrogance not on school fees, would be acceptable. If it were tax on exceptional arrogance it would capture Starmer, Rayner and Reeves too, all of whom are individually considerably more arrogant than Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Rory Stewart, the Archbish of C, or Goldsmith combined.

Starmer's a complete ****. Champagne society, self-righteous sphincter. Responsible for an organisation that saw fit to wrongly pursue journalists while doing nothing about notorious paedophiles and colluding in persecuting postmasters in the largest miscarriage of justice ever. Failing upwards all the way. That's before the grotesque political record he has. It's a miracle the man's not in prison, which is certainly where he belongs.
Rayner's ****ing stupid, but only enjoys this absurd reputation because our left-wing media idolises her cretinously because even they can't believe someone with so few qualities could possibly reach such an elevated position. The media consistently do this and consistently get it wrong almost every time: Obama, Biden, Rory Stewart, Savile or whichever other staff member is a sex offender this week, all these BLM activists who turn out to be criminals, Merkel, Lagarde.
Reeves is just a child who thinks she's about eight times cleverer than she is.
 
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