What affects us affects cats
Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax (IHT) raid on farmers should be scrapped completely. You may remember that she decided in her budget (which one?!) that IHT should be paid on farms valued at £1 million. This was a tax on families who have owned farms for perhaps generations. After a concerted campaign by British farmers, …
UK – This inept Labour government decided that the wealthy, with broad shoulders, should pay more tax to support the unsustainable welfare spending in the UK. The Chancellor dreamed up the ‘mansion tax’ which once enacted would result in owners of properties worth more than 2 million paying 2,500 thousand pounds annually in addition …
An unsurprising but nonetheless shocking 98 per cent of British people believe that Rachel Reeves is performing badly as chancellor according to a Daily Express poll. We don’t know the sample size or the demographics and it is the Daily Express which consistently pushes agendas of their choosing but that said: she is doing …
Dog and cat breeders (and pet sellers on, for instance, social media) operate in the black economy in that most often they do not pay tax. They are cash dealers. As a consequence, they are not registered with HMRC in the UK. Things are going to change as the Treasury is all out of …
Following White Coat Waste Project’s recent investigation exposing DOD’s wasteful and cruel $1 million drug tests that poisoned beagles, Congress just voted to defund the Pentagon’s dog and cat experiments. The bill marks the first time Congress has voted to prohibit all DOD spending on dog and cat experiments. This is another success by WCW …
The suggestion in the title might cause uproar among aspiring cat owners but the discussion is reasonable. It is worth a look. Even if one is a cat lover and owner, it is fair to say that there is a problem with cat ownership and cat domestication across the world and we have to …
In the UK, a hidden tax is applied to pet health insurance and I’d bet that most cat and dog owners have never heard of it. It is insurance premium tax (IPT) and it is levied at 12% to the insurance provider which passes on the cost to the customer. The customer does not …
