Starmer’s Tax on Private Schools Challenged in Court by Parents

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s move to tax private school fees was described as an unprecedented crackdown that breaches the country’s human rights obligations, in the first substantial court challenge to the plan.

The high court in London started a three-day hearing on the legality of imposing the 20% value added tax on independent schools, a move that the government expects will raise as much as £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) in the coming financial year. The cases were brought on behalf of a group of children arguing the tax places a disproportionate burden on their parents. The government denies ...