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Looming Crisis: Private Schools Face Closures Amid VAT Hike
Ha ha. I mistyped. I meant sack not save them, on the off chance he's not one of them. I still believe (naively) Starmer is basically a decent man, but flawed. Reeves I think is simply incompetant, but does a good job interview. Phillipson is simply vindictive; there are dark allegations made on social media about her mother. I wish I could read that article, but I suspect it will be tragically comic. VAT on gambling will raise over £3bn a year, but they won't tax that because of working man etc. Tax on TEFL schools will raise a decent £300m, but they won't do that due to Subcontinent politics. Tax on childrenswear will raise at least £1.3bn (varying estimates of the market size). The government think richer parents should specifically support the education the children of poorer parents. Yet, education funding is something that is generally accepted as something that the whole of society funds, whether with child, with children, childless, child-free. This is not out of some alturistic motivation but because today's kids are tomorrow's taxpayers. And state pension is paid by todays taxpayers, not yesterdays. Quid Pro Quo. Will childless people now be targeted for more tax because, presumably, they have lots more money sloshing around that they don't know what to do with? Its interesting when you dig far into the past, before VAT, when the UK had Purchase Tax (Luxury Tax introduced in WW2). Hansard debates are interesting. It wasn't always the case that Private Education was not taxed. But parents had tax relief that was capped at (in 1963 £) at about £80 a year (about £1200 today). It interesting to read the Hansard debate from the day. Its much the same as now, though tax relief was couched in terms of providing relief to an over stretched state sector. If the government was at all concerned with children, it could have looked mutiple options and models. One is the idea of the School voucher, amounting to say £7000, which would be effectively a £7000 discount on the average £18,000 annual fee. All schools only exist at the pleasure of the government; they cannot operate without government approval. A government could easily require said schools to increase admission numbers. The net result is probably more middle class parents would be interested in independant education, VAT take increases, relief on state schools, as state schools and private schools become more and more similar. Another approach is means tested tax relief, coupled with increased admission numbers, You are shifting x% of students where its going to cost you £5bn just to get 1 extra teacher for 3 schools to a system where you have 76,000 ready made teachers paid for by someone else. A colleague in India explained to me how it works in India (not suggesting Indian standards). He complained there are too many schools. But there are private schools and state schools, and some of these private schools have a very good reputation. Parents who want their children to attend these schools have to go into a lottery, and children drawn at random. The state pays most of the fees, and the parents, if they wish to take up the place, pay a very modest amount. I'm sure there are flaws in that approach, but its an example of lots of ways the government could have considered, but instead followed a show of hands at a party conference, which, like all party conferences of whatever colour, is only attended by fanatics and ideologues (Student Grant Types, Lefties, Blue Rinse Brigade, Gammons, Swivel Eyed Loons, Powerfully Built Dieectors, whatever you want to call them). Oh, and Philipson has put a suspension of Free School applications and anything associated. Gove's reforms have been generally welcomed by the profession, except by her. She might have got wind of Eton College proposing to open 3 state Sixth Forms. Another act of vandalism by an unusually ill-qualified Education Secretary (in truth, virtually all Education Secretaries are unqualified, one one in the last 40 years was a former teacher, and she reisgned as she felt she wasn't up to the job). -
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Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's,90's Music (2024)
What a way to start 2025 with a strong yet sad song -
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National Socialism was a Left Wing Socialist Political Movement
About what do you disagree with in my statement? I posted the proof of Hitler stating that he was neither on the side of the Left or the Right. Are you disputing that? The terms are the topic, you moron. 😊 Left and Right. National Socialists. Got it? 😊 -
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Israeli military loosened rules of engagement at start of Gaza war
<snipped for brevity>. So far as I know Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has not been officially confirmed as a member of Hamas, though it wouldn't be surprising as Hamas is the so called government in Gaza who rule at the point of a gun. Wouldn't have any choice if Hamas stored weapons at his hospital which so many blindly ignore. The crux of the issue would be if he is engaged in terrorist related activity. If you're comfortable with an official acceptable Israeli kill ratio of civilians of 1:20, so be it. Many others in the Western world, including Israelis and political and military leaders do not -
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Labour Faces Dramatic Losses as Political Landscape Shifts New Mega Poll
If Farage doesn't even want to meet those who voted for him in the last election what is he planning? He met Trump more than his voters. Once he starts meeting people who don't throw drinks at him what will they think? -
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Avoid to pay tax
This? Emergency Decree on Top-up Tax, B.E. 2567 (2024) Officially Promulgated in the Royal Gazette https://www.thaigov.go.th/news/contents/details/91823 Scroll down for the English version. Only a one-page summary. -
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Will Canada Become the 51st State of the US?
The US economy will get 5 million Indians in one fell swoop. -
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Annual Health Insurance policy from Allianz Ayudhya doubled this year!
Here is an example when Health Insurances increasing the Premium, as you have written you are now 66 means Premiums going significantly up.
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