Labour\u2019s plan to charge private schools VAT has caused predictable uproar and revealed skewed perceptions of wealth<\/p>\n
What does it mean to be \u201cwealthy\u201d? It is perhaps this question more than any other that haunts British society. The public\u2019s definition can be glimpsed in the reaction to Labour\u2019s mansion tax idea<\/a> for properties worth more than \u00a32m in 2015, or its proposal for a 45p tax rate<\/a> on earnings over \u00a380,000 in 2019: a revolution of polite but pushy well-to-do Britons (and a Conservative election victory) never seemed to take long to follow.<\/p>\n Like expensive Swiss clockwork, it\u2019s happening again. At the time of writing, more than 70,000 parents of private school pupils have signed a petition<\/a> to stop Keir Starmer\u2019s plan to charge private schools VAT. Tony Perry, an NHS data analyst on a \u00a360k salary and leader of the Education Not Taxation: Parents Against School Fee VAT campaign \u2013 who sends his 10-year-old son to a \u00a321,000-a-year school in Berkshire \u2013 describes himself<\/a> as \u201ca non-wealthy parent\u201d. Go through the comments on the petition and many others chime in to protest just how wealthy they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n Anoosh Chakelian is Britain editor of the New Statesman<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Labour\u2019s plan to charge private schools VAT has caused predictable uproar and revealed skewed perceptions of wealth What does it mean to be \u201cwealthy\u201d? It is perhaps this question more than any other that haunts British society. The public\u2019s definition can be glimpsed in the reaction to Labour\u2019s mansion tax idea for properties worth more … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}