Fee-paying schools face challenge to charity tax break - Britain - Times Online

Fee-paying schools face challenge to charity tax break - Britain - Times Online: "Fee-paying schools face challenge to charity tax break
By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent
PRIVATE schools face a fresh battle to preserve their charitable status in the face of a powerful campaign to end the tax break that helps to keep many of them in business.

A coalition of charities and Labour MPs will target legislation this summer in an effort to block the tax breaks that give fee-charging schools £88 million a year. Campaigners claim that the Charities Bill fails to put an end to the presumption that private schools should have charitable status."