Share your views on ‘horse tax’ before 19 April
The deadline to comment on plans to create a new animal health unit and charge a “horse tax” to fund it is 19 April.
Groups from across the horse industry oppose the Animal Health Bill proposed by Defra.
• Email: animalhealthbill@defra.gsi.gov.uk, or post your views to Animal Health Bill Team, Defra, Area 5E, 9 Millbank, c/o Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.
This article was first published in Horse & Hound (8 April, ’10)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.