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Lord Thurlow (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 March 2025

Debate

Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill)

Contribution

I want simply to add to these very moving and persuasive comments. It seems to me the most terrible act of self-harm to tax the schools again and again. It is not just VAT and the non-domestic rates but national insurance increases on staff and employees, and, in recent years, a compulsory increase to pension provision outside any private arrangements the schools may make. Those are four separate recent taxes. When is this bleeding going to stop?

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