EU Cat tax.

Rupert_Bear

As from next year we will have to pay £35.00 for each cat we have.
This is a EU directive. This is to help the likes of the Prime minister and other senior ministers have a better pension.

I know the PM said we were all in this together didnt realise it meant my furry friends as well.

John_Pierpoint

I love it.

What ever next a law to make it a reportable offence to run one over?
A law allowing a claim off the owner when swerving to avoid one causes an accident?

Proceeds could be given to the RSPB.

If one owned a three legged cat could one claim a 25% discount.

Export the body to Korea and reclaim the VAT on exports - zero rated foodstuff

You know it makes sense.

We had a superbly believable one over on the "Debate" part of the forum a few years ago.

Rupert_Bear

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I love it.

What ever next a law to make it a reportable offence to run one over?
A law allowing a claim off the owner when swerving to avoid one causes an accident?

Proceeds could be given to the RSPB.

If one owned a three legged cat could one claim a 25% discount.

Export the body to Korea and reclaim the VAT on exports - zero rated foodstuff

You know it makes sense.

We had a superbly believable one over on the "Debate" part of the forum a few years ago.

Well the story must be genuine because it appeared in the Daily mail and I am sure it has nothing to do with the 1st April!!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

John_Pierpoint

Another one here on the FiT tax/rebate thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/42478252#Comment_42478252

dzug1

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

As from next year we will have to pay £35.00 for each cat we have.
This is a EU directive.
.

Acually sounds quite a good idea.......;)

lincroft1710

There will also be a £5 levy on goldfish, so if your cat eats a goldfish, it'll cost you £40 a year.

Anyone out there old enough to remember the annual dog licence at 7/6d (37.5p).

John_Pierpoint

Was it not more expensive than a marriage licence - thus proving that man's best friend is his dog.

lincroft1710

Can't remember how much a marriage licence cost back in the 1960s, I thought it was about 25/- (£1.25) but I'm probably completely wrong.

John_Pierpoint

This is probably what the old saying about it being more expensive to get a dog than a wife was based on:

A registrar shall be entitled to receive from persons married under this Part of this Act in his presence the sum of ten shillings if the marriage is by licence and, in any other case, the sum of five shillings.

Marriage act 1949. (As more and more marriages were civil marriages rather than religious ones).

From Wikipedia:

Great BritainDog licensing was abolished in 1988. Prior to this dog licences were mandatory, but the requirement was widely ignored, with only about half of owners having one. The final rate for a dog licence was 37 pence, reduced from 37½p when the halfpenny was withdrawn in 1984. This figure was an exact conversion from 7/6 (seven shillings and sixpence) on decimalization in 1971. The revenue went to local authorities.

jimmo

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

This is probably what the old saying about it being more expensive to get a dog than a wife

I'm confused now. Back in my youth when Housey-Housey was becoming Bingo there was a standard call " Seven and Six- Was she worth it?"
I always thought that was a reference to the marriage licence.
Now you have me worrying about whether it had a much darker meaning but, even at the age of 60, I can't bring myself to ask my mum.

Just_landed

In 1974 it was just shy of £15, best £15 I ever spent.


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