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No VAT on rabbit food. Your money and how they spend it. BBC 2

I thought the whole shw was to do with bunnies lol!
Its about all tax :mad:
What does it say about the rabbit food?
 
Was very brief. About a minute or less saying that there is no VAT on rabbit food and the woman on TV passed him a bag of rabbit muesli. Then said there is VAT on dog food and pointed at those chewy bone things but again said not rabbit food. I assume the BBC would research this but not sure.
 
Probably because rabbits can be farmed for food, so the food would be tax deductible as a business expense.
 
No they said food given to rabbits. She showed a bag of rabbit muesli and was filmed in a pet shop.

I think what Nickie means is they may be seen as livestock, like sheep, instead of purely pets like dogs. I have no idea though!


Heres one for you, yogurt is not VAT, raisins are not VAT, but yogurt covered raisins are! :lol:
 
I think what Nickie means is they may be seen as livestock, like sheep, instead of purely pets like dogs. I have no idea though!


Heres one for you, yogurt is not VAT, raisins are not VAT, but yogurt covered raisins are! :lol:

:oops: Some things go flying across my head. :lol:

Maybe its what binds the yogurt to the raisins. :lol: Funny tasting things anyway.
 
:oops: Some things go flying across my head. :lol:

Maybe its what binds the yogurt to the raisins. :lol: Funny tasting things anyway.

I think its because yogurt and raisins are just food, but yogurt coated raisins are classed as a luxury.

I think cocoa powder is vat free, but chocolate is vat.

I only know these things because I used to work in a shop where we had 2 different coloured price tickets, one for VAT, one for zero VAT because we had an old fashioned till where you had to tell it.
 
I think its because yogurt and raisins are just food, but yogurt coated raisins are classed as a luxury.

I think cocoa powder is vat free, but chocolate is vat.

I only know these things because I used to work in a shop where we had 2 different coloured price tickets, one for VAT, one for zero VAT because we had an old fashioned till where you had to tell it.

The whole VAT thing can get confusing. I thought, but obviously wrong, that food didn't have VAT. I know childrens clothes don't.
 
There is no VAT on rabbit food fed to rabbits because rabbits are classed as food and therefore not vatable
 
There is no VAT on rabbit food fed to rabbits because rabbits are classed as food and therefore not vatable

Very sad. But at least it benefits bunny owners. I wonder if that applies to chinchillas, piggies, hampster, gerbils etc. Although they would not be food in this country.

Thanks goodness rabbits as food has never really caught on.
 
There is no historical incidence of hamsters, gerbils etc., being eaten in this country so they are defined as a pet and their food - especially if it is specialised solely to an animal that is a pet - is VATable.

Rabbits were introduced into the UK as a food source by the Romans. In the Middle Ages they were kept in vast colonies and called Coneys. You might find the name Coney in the names of land marks thus hinting at their previous use. In Gloucester there is an area called Coney Hill.

I watched the programme later by chance and the lady in the market clearly explained that rabbit food was free of VAT because 'we can eat rabbits', i.e. they are considered as livestock by the Government or were when the VAT regs were put together.
 
Yes, rabbits are considered to be "food" and therefore their food not Vat-able. Food for Working dogs (collies who tidy sheep, and greyhounds for example) are Vat-free too. however, food for "pet" dogs is vat-able.
Very complicated.
 
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