Single hen

[Patricia W]

There's an article in The Times today (page 21) about owners facing taxes for animal disease insurance. It says that anyone owning a cow, pig,sheep or CHICKEN will have to pay a new animal disease tax and also pay compulsory insurance to cover costs in case of an outbreak of disease. It will be 8p for a chicken. It mentions " keepers of small backyard flocks". I'm assuming that it won't affect those of us with less than 50 chickens - am I right?

 

 

Tricia

[Tiggy]

I knew it someone posted here a while ago about US home chicken keepers having to pay for a license and lots of people posted that it would not be long before our government cottoned on to it, I hope it does not apply to most of us with very small numbers of hens

[Jillus]

Is this going to be an annual tax?

 

If so my 32 pence for my four girls is going to be less than the cost of the stamp to post it!

[Tiggy]

Is this going to be an annual tax?

 

If so my 32 pence for my four girls is going to be less than the cost of the stamp to post it!

 

we should all offer to pay it by installments

[Jillus]

Do you think an MP with chickens gets to claim it on his/her expenses

[chickencam]

[Tiggy]

Do you think an MP with chickens gets to claim it on his/her expenses

 

only if they watch mucky videos

[hillfamily]

I wonder what the admin costs will be to collect my 96p

[redbug]

[fluffyknickers]

Oh no, better start saving for my 24p now.

[The Dogmother]

Ruddy Golden Brown; getting us every way he can!

[Guest]

Do you get a refund if one of your chickens dies or gets eaten by a fox during the year???

 

My chicken numbers seem rather flexible.

[Old Speckled Hen]

And how, exactly, is this going to be enforced?

Armies of civil servants, now there's a way to reduce the unemployed.

Give them government jobs to big bruvver the rest of us.

We will have to wear Kev's design T shirts hidden underneath our normal clothes bearing them only at clandestine support meetings.

 

This story is a day too early

[The Dogmother]

At a guess, in just that same way as DEFRA spread the news and visit smallholding when there is a bird flu outbreak.... :roll:' Not at all'

[Egluntyne]

Will they have a statutory right of entry to collect this fortune which will swell the coffers at the Treasury?

[Christian]

I had better put the price of my eggs up, to cover my 48p increase in costs! Do I have to pay once a year??

 

It smacks of when they used helicopters to fly over gardens to spot green lawns during a hose pipe ban

[Mrs Webmuppet]

Do we get to pay half price for Bantams?- I mean Snowy and Scurry are tiny and are far too posh to bother with laying eggs

[Old Speckled Hen]

We will have to microchip every hen, supplying DEFRA with a recent UNSMILING photograph and register her on a database linked to a bank account from which there will be a direct debit taken a year in advance.

I suspect fowl play

[chelsea]

Rip off Britain yet again.

[Tiggy]

We will have to microchip every hen, supplying DEFRA with a recent UNSMILING photograph and register her on a database linked to a bank account from which there will be a direct debit taken a year in advance.

I suspect fowl play

I can just picture hens sitting on that little swivel chair in the photo booth, and prob leave a pressie for the next person

[Plum]

You say insurance does that cover vet bills in which case I'm in for 24p a year.

[craftyhunnypie]

Heck - that's £1.60 for my lot.

How ridiculous!

 

Emma.x

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I can just picture hens sitting on that little swivel chair in the photo booth, and prob leave a pressie for the next person

 

Snowy and Scurry would have to balance on top of a milk crate on the stool to get their pics done

[Poached]

help! i better start saving my £1.44 now

 

 

i feel sorry for lesley

 

 

 

jsh

[bigmommasally]

Fear not! I think we might just be okay

 

According to Farmers Weekly the levy per chicken is 4p. On Defra's consultation paper (Annex 9 Thresholds for payment of registration fee) the table shows that they would not collect from any premise with less than 397 chickens as the cost of invoicing would be greater than the revenue collected.

 

This means that we can all have 396 chickens and not have to pay the tax - I best go and buy some more then