Press Release: 10,000 Oppose Horse Tax Bill

10,000 Oppose Horse Tax Bill

Ministers are under pressure to reconsider controversial plans to introduce a new tax on horse owners after over 10,000 people signed a petition opposing the move. Even before the Government’s draft Animal Health Bill was published yesterday afternoon it had drawn criticism from the horse sector unhappy that the Government is pressing ahead with the plans despite overwhelming opposition from horse owners. Campaigners have been logging on to the 10 Downing Street website since September to have their say on the proposals, which would see every horse owner in the country hit with a ‘tax in all but name’ on each of their animals to help pay for a new Government agency to oversee animal health.   

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January 26th, 2010