Plain-English guides to the money and compliance side of running a veterinary business — the CMA remedies and pricing, RCVS and premises obligations, medicines records, locum tax, payroll, and buying or selling a practice. Written for the person who has to deal with it.
Every remedy in the draft Order, expressed in months from the Order rather than as a date — because no compliance date exists yet. Plus the one item with no lead time at all.
Read the guidePremises registration, the voluntary Practice Standards Scheme, the 24-hour duty in the RCVS's exact words, the 2026/27 fees and dates, and the reform that is proposed rather than law.
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The four distribution categories, prescription validity, the seven fields you keep for five years, the annual audit, and the guidance change of 1 September 2023 that was not a change in the law.
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How to build a standard price list across the five weight bands, what the parasiticide list must cover, how pet care plan disclosure exposes plan economics, and the £500 estimate threshold with its update trigger.
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Self-employed or through a company, on 2026/27 rates: income tax, Class 4 and Class 2, the dividend rise, the Employment Allowance trap, MTD for Income Tax, and the deductions that genuinely apply.
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Chapter 8 versus Chapter 10 of ITEPA, who carries the risk in each, how the split maps onto a market where 76% of businesses own one practice, and why the 2025 threshold rise has not bitten yet.
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Premises registration on the RVPP, the PSS position, the medicines records a buyer must read, the CMA duties that transfer with the business, and why the goodwill you buy often carries no tax relief.
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Who the six large groups are and how they are owned, BADR at 18% from 6 April 2026, CMA merger call-in risk in concentrated areas, and the profitability evidence that can honestly be published.
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The real 2026/27 arithmetic on extraction versus retention, the associated-companies divisor that catches practices with a property company, and what incorporating does not change.
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The 2026/27 employer NIC, wage and auto-enrolment figures, the full Employment Rights Act 2025 timetable to 2027, and what Schedule 3 lets a registered veterinary nurse actually do.
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How AIA and full expensing actually differ, worked in pounds for an incorporated practice and an unincorporated one, plus the disposal charge and the electric vehicle allowances.
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Which threshold and which tax year decides your start date, why qualifying income means gross fees, how the cumulative quarters really work, and who is outside the regime.
Read the guideThe guides cover the patterns; your practice is specific. A free conversation usually answers more than an afternoon of reading.
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