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Short, current reads on what is moving for veterinary businesses — the CMA Order, the dates that are and are not fixed, tax changes, and the questions practice owners are asking us now.
Short, current reads on what is moving for veterinary businesses — the CMA Order, the dates that are and are not fixed, tax changes, and the questions practice owners are asking us now.
6 August 2026
The three MTD thresholds and the years they are tested on, why qualifying income means turnover rather than profit, the cumulative quarters, and why a company locum is out of scope.
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3 August 2026
Where £21 and £12.50 come from, why the draft Order brackets them, what practices charge today, and how to model a cap whose binding figure is not yet known.
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27 July 2026
What has and has not happened since the final report of 24 March 2026: the draft Order, the consultation, the dates that are still blank, and the one obligation that starts on the day the Order is made.
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20 July 2026
The five England multipliers from 1 April 2026, why a veterinary practice pays the standard or small business rate rather than the lower RHL rates, and what the difference is worth.
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13 July 2026
The Employment Rights Act calendar for a practice with staff: what is in force, what lands in October 2026, and the January 2027 change that has been widely misreported.
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6 July 2026
The BADR rate history, the conditions that take two years to meet, and the buyer-side goodwill relief rule that shapes whether a practice sells as shares or as assets.
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29 June 2026
The verified consolidation numbers from the CMA's final report: who the six groups are, how they are owned, the 18.3% price gap, and the awareness finding that favours an independent.
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The remedies the CMA considered and rejected — divestments, an ownership cap, general price controls, a profit cap — and why transparency turned out to be the tool that favours a small practice.
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15 June 2026
Why a non-vet can own a practice, what the Practice Standards Scheme actually is, the premises registration that is genuinely mandatory, and what Defra has proposed but not enacted.
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10 June 2026
The April 2026 dividend rise worked through on real figures, plus the associated-companies divisor that raises corporation tax before extraction even starts.
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