At a time when private schools are attracting more than customary media attention on account of the current controversy raging over the official decision that private education must now attract Value Added Tax, Henry Chase, the owner and Principal of Chase Academy believes that it is important that the brouhaha does not take away from the role that the private school has to play in the overall education system.
He concedes that private schools, like other legitimate businesses must live within the law and that, he says, means that they must pay their taxes. What concerns him is that engagement with government on the issue of taxes not become the subject of bad blood or confrontation.
It is on the challenges which he says are often linked to the business of private education that he wishes to comment. Chase Academy is currently in its seventeenth year, having been established in 2006.
