It’s a shame that the government is imposing a tax on education which is fundamentally beneficial to the economy , private or state. There are many other industries that contribute to inequity, that perhaps should be focused on first - for example land ownership or property development/housing wealth. Rather than taking from one sector of the education industry and providing to the other, arguably reducing the quality of education in certain areas, the government could possible look to source its revenue from other industries to externally inject into state schools. After all, education feeds the vast majority of industries and high standard of living in this country.
i think putting vat on private school fees won't necessarily produce enough money to make a significant impact to all the state schools across the country, i think this move will result in small adjustments in the state school sector but will mean that middle class families that can just about afford private school fees at the moment will have to withdraw their child from the private school sector which is such a shame.
insightful and balanced perspective Geoff... very interesting and i don't think we'll know the true impacts for quite some time.
It’s a shame that the government is imposing a tax on education which is fundamentally beneficial to the economy , private or state. There are many other industries that contribute to inequity, that perhaps should be focused on first - for example land ownership or property development/housing wealth. Rather than taking from one sector of the education industry and providing to the other, arguably reducing the quality of education in certain areas, the government could possible look to source its revenue from other industries to externally inject into state schools. After all, education feeds the vast majority of industries and high standard of living in this country.
but they are looking at recovering costs from all industries... such as farmland inheritance tax on property
i think putting vat on private school fees won't necessarily produce enough money to make a significant impact to all the state schools across the country, i think this move will result in small adjustments in the state school sector but will mean that middle class families that can just about afford private school fees at the moment will have to withdraw their child from the private school sector which is such a shame.