One of the Victorian private schools facing a new $322 million (US$214 million) state tax caters to children with language and learning difficulties.
Andale School in Kew has been named on a list of 60 independent and religious schools in the state to be stripped of their longstanding payroll tax exemption from July 2024.
Education Minister Natalie Hutchins set the income threshold for non-exempt schools at more than $15,000 (US$10,000) per student, capturing the specialist school in Melbourne’s inner east.
The school, which was formed in 1981 before moving to Kew in 1987, charges parents $3740 (US$2480) per term and has students aged from 5 to 13 with language and learning difficulties….