This will raise £1.6 billion, which will be used to hire 6,500 new teachers in public schools
Dr. Akhtar Gulfam Director News Dawn TV + Editor-in-chief Daily Dawn
LONDON: The Labor Party government in the United Kingdom plans to impose a value-added tax on private schools to boost education in public schools and create thousands of new teaching staff posts.
According to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who took office after the Fourth of July elections of the same year, the lack of teachers for children studying in public secondary schools can have lasting negative effects on their future.
After years of underfunding and rising inequality, the London government last month signaled it would end the extra tax exemption on private school fees.
The move is expected to raise £1.6 billion, which will be used to hire 6,500 new teachers in public schools.
Private schools in the UK will now have to pay a 20 percent value-added tax (VAT) on fees paid to them from January 1, which will increase the financial burden on parents of students in these schools.
As a result of this decision, such parents, who are financially weak, are in dire straits over the upcoming increase in fees due to value-added tax.
