Date set for ISC’s High Court challenge on VAT on fees

  • 30th January 2025

It has been confirmed that the Independent Schools Council’s legal challenge to the government’s policy to impose VAT on independent school fees will be heard in the High Court between 1 and 3 April.

Julie Robinson, chief executive at the ISC, said: “This is an unprecedented tax on education – it is right that its compatibility with human rights law is tested. We believe the diversity within independent schools has been ignored in the haste to implement this damaging policy, with families and, ultimately, children, bearing the brunt of the negative impacts this rushed decision is already having.

“It is to protect the rights of these families and young people, who are having their choice removed from them by this policy, that we are seeking a declaration of incompatibility.”

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