Charge VAT on private healthcare like independent school fees, Kinnock tells Reeves

Charge VAT on private healthcare like independent school fees, Kinnock tells Reeves

Rachel Reeves should put VAT on private healthcare in this autumn’s Budget to raise billions for the NHS, Lord Neil Kinnock has said.The former Labour leader said that removing the VAT exemption on private healthcare would provide “vital funding” for public services and be “widely supported” by the public.If such a tax was structured to give private hospitals a carve-out for any work they do for the NHS, it would still raise more than £2bn, anal…