Dog licences - UK
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I'm Surprised the Government are missing an opportunity to raise Money by not re-introducing the DOG Licence which they scrapped in 1980's :? it would now be easy to collect since all dogs have a chip etc, with owners name and address. particularly vicious dogs could be charged more, and useless 'Kick' /handbag dogs the most
They could add on Public liabilty insurance at the same time - seems like a great idea to me;) I'd certainly vote for the party who did, there are far too many irresponsible owners IMO, owning a dog costs Zilch - zippo what does everyone think about this?

S47 said:
I'm Surprised the Government are missing an opportunity to raise Money by not re-introducing the DOG Licence which they scrapped in 1980's :? it would now be easy to collect since all dogs have a chip etc, with owners name and address. particularly vicious dogs could be charged more, and useless 'Kick' /handbag dogs the most
They could add on Public liabilty insurance at the same time - seems like a great idea to me;) I'd certainly vote for the party who did, there are far too many irresponsible owners IMO, owning a dog costs Zilch - zippo what does everyone think about this?
Not all dogs have chips.
Blue_star said:
I only support because near me there is areas where xl bullies constantly rip kids into pieces. So if you tax the crap out of certain breeds you can reduce the number of accidents.
I expect free poo bags in every park tough
You have to consider a lot of these dogs are bred in backyards and wouldn't be officially registered, cross breeding would go on to avoid paying licence fees and enforcement would be very expensive and time consuming so as a means of raising funds it would be counter productiveI expect free poo bags in every park tough
Jamescrs said:
Blue_star said:
I only support because near me there is areas where xl bullies constantly rip kids into pieces. So if you tax the crap out of certain breeds you can reduce the number of accidents.
I expect free poo bags in every park tough
You have to consider a lot of these dogs are bred in backyards and wouldn't be officially registered, cross breeding would go on to avoid paying licence fees and enforcement would be very expensive and time consuming so as a means of raising funds it would be counter productiveI expect free poo bags in every park tough
If you have any doubt, look at how effective requiring driving licence and vehicle tax for every driver is.
Jamescrs said:
Blue_star said:
I only support because near me there is areas where xl bullies constantly rip kids into pieces. So if you tax the crap out of certain breeds you can reduce the number of accidents.
I expect free poo bags in every park tough
You have to consider a lot of these dogs are bred in backyards and wouldn't be officially registered, cross breeding would go on to avoid paying licence fees and enforcement would be very expensive and time consuming so as a means of raising funds it would be counter productiveI expect free poo bags in every park tough
Dogs shouldnt be in the backyard all the time. Cross breeding - fine but the locense wont drop too much from £1k lets say. Wont be half of it
Doofus said:
WrekinCrew said:
Doofus said:
Not all dogs have chips.
They have been been mandatory since 2016. Are there (legal) exceptions?Some people don't do as they are told, you know.
WrekinCrew said:
Doofus said:
WrekinCrew said:
Doofus said:
Not all dogs have chips.
They have been been mandatory since 2016. Are there (legal) exceptions?Some people don't do as they are told, you know.
I remember when we owned a dog 1960's-70's maybe the licence cost 12/6p or thereabouts wages at the time for most people were £4-5/week so licence cost a fair % of weekly wage. when dog licence was abolished in1986 i think the licence cost about the same 75p i believe so at the time it was worth abolishing it to save gov't money - if however the licence fee had risen with inflation between 1960's -1980's i reckon it should have cost maybe £25-30 when abolished in 1986 - wages then were £120-150/week. then maybe the governmant would not have abolisheed it- Anyone know why there was never any increases in the dog licence fees back then?
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Were the govt to re-introduce dog licence's with inflation the licence ought to cost at least £100-150 / dog - Don't know how many dogs are in UK say 1 million so £100 x 1 million =£100million quid/year for HM treasury, Even putting 'SIR' nobody in charge and giving him/her a small team there has to be a profit for HM gov't and that B4 they force you to have Public Liability Ins for the dog - where they take a % of the insurance fee.
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Another gov't earner would be for anyone who wanted to own a dog to have to pass a 'test' to prove their competance - clearly today most dog owners don't have any idea about dog control etc etc.
Just my thoughts the government seem to tax whatever they can get away with - wonder why dog owners have avoided their wrath for so long???
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Were the govt to re-introduce dog licence's with inflation the licence ought to cost at least £100-150 / dog - Don't know how many dogs are in UK say 1 million so £100 x 1 million =£100million quid/year for HM treasury, Even putting 'SIR' nobody in charge and giving him/her a small team there has to be a profit for HM gov't and that B4 they force you to have Public Liability Ins for the dog - where they take a % of the insurance fee.
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Another gov't earner would be for anyone who wanted to own a dog to have to pass a 'test' to prove their competance - clearly today most dog owners don't have any idea about dog control etc etc.
Just my thoughts the government seem to tax whatever they can get away with - wonder why dog owners have avoided their wrath for so long???
S47 said:
Were the govt to re-introduce dog licence's with inflation the licence ought to cost at least £100-150 / dog - Don't know how many dogs are in UK say 1 million so £100 x 1 million =£100million quid/year for HM treasury, Even putting 'SIR' nobody in charge and giving him/her a small team there has to be a profit for HM gov't and that B4 they force you to have Public Liability Ins for the dog - where they take a % of the insurance fee.
You're bonkers. The government take a percentage of the insurance premiums? From whom? And why, given they're already making £100m per year (less the thirty grand Dog Licence Manager's salary)?hotchy said:
Dog owners spend estimated 16.9b a year in the country. Why risk that large tax take for such a stupid thing?
You mean that if dog licences were re-introduced they would all leave the country? That seems unlikely. Motorists continually get taxed and fined into oblivion and they haven't all emigrated yet.Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff