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2024-10-14 08:39:22 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Nothing in the report indicates this is set to cost HMRC ‘billions’. The reporting focuses on the fact that only richer schools that have made recent large capital expenditures — not nearly in the magnitude of ‘billions’ of VAT paid — can offset against some past VAT. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/12/eton-among-elite-private-schools-set-to-cash-in-on-windfall-from-new-vat-rules

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• Nothing in the report indicates this is set to cost HMRC ‘billions’. The reporting focuses on the fact that only richer schools that have made recent large capital expenditures — not nearly in the magnitude of ‘billions’ of VAT paid — can offset against some past VAT. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/12/eton-among-elite-private-schools-set-to-cash-in-on-windfall-from-new-vat-rules