AFC to press for review of education VAT

While government has maintained that the 14 percent Value Added Tax on private school fees will remain for this year, governing coalition partner, the Alliance For Change says it will continue to push for its review amid grumbling by top officials and other supporters of the party.

In the end, however, party leader and government minister Raphael Trotman says that Cabi-net’s decision will be influenced by the impact the decision would have for the country as a whole.

“The AFC is going to be pushing for a review and as I said we hope it comes sooner rather than later but at the end of the day we are a part of a coalition and are aware that sometimes pulling one string has corresponding consequences,” Trotman told Stabroek News last Thursday.

Supporters of the party, including top officials have all bemoaned the VAT implementation on private tuition saying that the move was not only hard on the average parent but will serve as a political blow to both the AFC and the other key coalition partner, APNU.