Bird racers’ rates plea to Queen
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- Bird racers’ rates plea to Queen
- Tax reprieve hope for bird racers
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- Problems With Pigeons
- Huckabee’s profile on the rise
Bird racers’ rates plea to Queen
BBC News – Nov 26, 2007
Members of Belford Racing Pigeon Club in Northumberland may have to start paying rates on a small shed where they store their race baskets. Because pigeon racing is not classed as a sport it may now be subject to an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) levy. The Queen is patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA)… Members of Belford Racing Pigeon Club in Northumberland may have to start paying rates on a small shed where they store their race baskets. Because pigeon racing is not classed as a sport it may now be subject to an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) levy. The Queen is patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA).
Tax reprieve hope for bird racers
BBC News – Nov 27, 2007
Pigeon racing is not classed as a sport and enthusiasts are now faced with an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) levy on the cages used to house birds. Members of Belford Racing Pigeon Club wrote to the Queen as patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA). Now Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has said she will reconsider the issue. Responding to a question in the House of Commons Ms Blears said she would “look again” at the rules for business rates. Pay upUnder proposals to introduce rates on sports clubs and village halls groups can formally apply for dispensation from HMRC for 80% relief and then to their local authority for a 20% reduction… Pigeon racing is not classed as a sport and enthusiasts are now faced with an HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) levy on the cages used to house birds. Members of Belford Racing Pigeon Club wrote to the Queen as patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA). Now Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has said she will reconsider the issue. Responding to a question in the House of Commons Ms Blears said she would “look again” at the rules for business rates. Pay upUnder proposals to introduce rates on sports clubs and village halls groups can formally apply for dispensation from HMRC for 80% relief and then to their local authority for a 20% reduction. Sports such as yoga arm-wrestling and trampolining are also exempt from paying rates.
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UKPets – Nov 26, 2007
However a ban on bird gatherings in the Restricted Zone and a ban on birds from the Restricted Zone being taken to gatherings in the rest of the country remains in place. The situation says.
Problems With Pigeons
Gotham Gazette – Nov 26, 2007
But now several City Council members have proposed measures to limit the birdssparking support ridicule and heated debate. Feelings about animals always run high (see. You either love ‘em or you hate ‘em.
Huckabee’s profile on the rise
Spartanburg Herald Journal – Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription… – Nov 26, 2007
“They’re a little slower. And I don’t shoot at teal because I never can hit the darned thing. “It was a made-for-TV moment one likely that will be easily found online today. It was also Huckabee in his element talking to a couple hundred sportsmen – most of them from the Upstate – at the Spartanburg Gun Club near Pacolet. And it was the end of a whirlwind couple of weeks for the one-time long-shot candidate who released a commercial in Iowa featuring Chuck Norris picked up a pre-Thanksgiving Day endorsement from U… Watching Huckabee mingle with the hunters while surrounded by an entourage of national media – Time magazine the Washington Post the Dallas Morning News Fox News and CBS News were all in tow – was a far cry from his earlier visits to Spartanburg. That’s despite his April performance at the Republican county convention here where the party picked him as best at addressing the issues that concerned them. Steven Blanton 25 of Cherokee County was quite impressed that Janet Huckabee hit more clay pigeons than her husband. But he enjoyed the skeet shoot and got his picture snapped with the governor. “It’s about involving yourself in things you know the community does and letting people know ‘I can be just like you and I can relate to you. ‘ Whether it’s publicity or not I don’t know” Blanton said. “I think it works though.
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