Labour’s official parliamentary spokesman for shooting and angling, Martin Salter, signalled the new post-Hunting Act mood when he wrote in Labour’s 2005 document, Charter for Shooting: ‘As a political party, we want to go much...
Posted 20 Nov 2007
An East Midlands television programme was screened on 7 November about the cruelty of game bird shooting. Inside Out is a half hour regional current affairs programme which presents matters of public interest.
Posted 07 Nov 2007
Less than three years after parliament banned hunting with hounds, the red carpet was rolled out at this week’s Labour Party conference for the leading figures of a bloodsport that involves the mass production and...
Posted 25 Sep 2007
A former senior officer with Britain’s leading shooting lobby group has revealed that up to 40 per cent of all birds shot at for sport are wounded rather than killed outright, and are never recovered.
Posted 25 Jun 2007
Animal Aid's 'Feathering Their Nests' (2002) was the first exposé of fraud and tax evasion in the shooting industry. Since 2000, we have submitted numerous reports to taxation agencies detailing how the shooting industry was...
Posted 14 Dec 2006
A government investigation into tax evasion by the shooting industry has uncovered evidence of non-payment of VAT that could amount to more than £20 million.
Posted 14 Dec 2006
This article is republished from OneHMRC – the staff magazine of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs A project from Norwich, now gone national, is pulling in millions of pounds of extra VAT from the shooting...
Posted 14 Dec 2006
The game shooting industry, while trumpeting its alleged contribution to the rural economy, is guilty of widespread tax 'irregularities', according to a new report by Animal Aid.
Posted 25 Jul 2006
For five months every year, the 25-strong department store group invites its staff to indulge in the perverse 'pleasure' of blasting pheasants from the sky. Around 200 birds are bagged daily at the firm's 3000-acre...
Posted 20 Jul 2006
HM Revenue and Customs have announced that they are closing in on the shooting industry, as a result of evidence of 'tax irregularities occurring across the country'. The agency will be making unannounced visits to...
Posted 27 Apr 2006