{"id":45607,"date":"2019-07-16T08:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45607"},"modified":"2019-07-16T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:13:02","slug":"if-the-nhs-is-not-a-charity-why-are-private-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/07\/16\/if-the-nhs-is-not-a-charity-why-are-private-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"If the NHS is not a charity why are private providers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don't give a great deal of attention to Council Tax here. Peter May at Progressive Pulse (of which I am the director) does. He posted this yesterday<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems to have received little publicity but I have to say I\u2019m pleased that the government is going to be\u00a0taken to court over rates bills.<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently:<\/p>\n

Hospitals in England and Wales will pay a combined \u00a3408.6 million in business rates this year \u2014 a rise of 42.8% since 2017 when the Government carried out a revaluation of all commercial premises, research by rates specialists Altus Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Private hospitals are not businesses but charities so are unsurprisingly exempt from business rates. Yet surely NHS hospitals are not businesses either?<\/p>\n

It is another example of a purposely skewed unlevel playing field where the NHS is looked upon to \u2018compete\u2019 with private hospitals but with automatically higher overheads. It is contrived legislation.<\/p>\n

Moreover:<\/p>\n

Private schools also benefit from the tax break, along with Free Schools \u2014 although local authority schools still have to pay rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is another topsy turvy regulation \u2014 the more you run your school along business lines the less you have to pay business rates.<\/p>\n

And all this legal action is basically the government suing itself because they all think that money is short.<\/p>\n

Deception and misunderstanding is complete. Even branches of government don\u2019t seem to realise who creates money.<\/p>\n

And if the government fails to resource local authorities adequately as it is now doing, local authorities might be even worse off.<\/p>\n

And all the idiots in government can talk about is Brexit.<\/p>\n

They seem unaware that charity begins at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t give a great deal of attention to Council Tax here. Peter May at Progressive Pulse (of which I am the director) does. He
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