Horse Passports - change of name and address - what a rip OFF

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It has just cost me £25 to change my name on my horses passports and address - why because i was stupid and got married.

Ok buying a horse i expect to pay - but what for? I have gone on to the system entered all the details including payment and now a nice little computer will churn out a crappy piece of stick on stuff and send it via a 32 p stamp to hopefully my new address.

What exactly did the horse passport agency do to earn the £25 i have just paid them ???

The alternative was to send passports via recoreded mail, and wait "upto" a month but we cannot guarantee we wont lose your passport !!!

Money for nothing or what - certainly no service !!
 
passports-horse tax,are they linked? any one operating legally has a passport registered in their name helpfull when collecting taxes .
 
What do dealers do? - you cant blame them for not changing details on a horse they will probaly have for a week or two and after reading an article on the "lack of checks at a slaughter house" it makes you wonder why we bother.

Do you reckon that the microchips will turn into road scanners so we can contribute to road tax as well (lol)
 
MFH - i wholly agree with you - i was just thinking along the same lines myself. All i need is the horse's number and name and to register with the horsepassport online service. No checks no nothing and i was really surprised their was no other checks in place.

I would love to see a justification of the costs - i could understand a little more if you had to send the passport in and it was actually checked but the online rubbish was not worth a quid let alone £12.50 - i gave up trying to change my name and address as "no horses were registered to me! " so "brought my horses off my unmarried self"
 
Gah, we have just had our whole yard checked - I have to update the address details on 2 of mine. As if having horses wasn't expensive enough
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Horse passports in the themselves are another stealth tax as far as I'm concerned.

A collaboration between all the breed societies to get more money out of us all.

I'm still furious with the Shetland Pony Society for charging me £50 for my Shetland's passport however many years ago, when all 3 other ponies (2 New Forest and a Welsh Cob) didn't even add up to that in total!

And then to add insult to injury the Shetland doesn't exist according to the National Equine Database. I have written to them to complain, to no avail.

Oh well, maybe I just won't be taxed for him!!
 
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