[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Proposed "new" AKC Fees
- From: sheila lieberman <dgshwpromo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:24:18 -0800 (PST)
I have sent them a note asking if they really want to kill showing, and if they
do, why not just get it over with. The slow kill is cruel.
sheila
--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Ginger Cleary <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Ginger Cleary <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Proposed "new" AKC Fees
To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 10:08 AM
This is just plain wrong. I am firing off a letter to AKC immediately!
Ginger Cleary - Rome, GA www.rihadin.com
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triumph.--Edmund Burke
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-----Original Message-----
This interesting turn of events was forwarded to me. Does anyone know
anything about this?
If true and passed I think the organization that is supposed to support and
nurture is getting to be our own worst enemy.
Susan
Winterset
AKC proposed "activity fee"
Please forward to your club lists! A letter writing campaign to the
delegates and to AKC might be called for. visit www.akc.org
As one exhibitor/breeder/ judge said, "Eventually they will price purebred
dogs and dog shows out of reach for the general (or new) exhibitor and
we'll
go out of business.
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FOLLOWING FROM "THE DOG PRESS" NEWSLETTER EMAIL RECEIVED TODAY:
AKC Exhibition Tax: AKC plans to help pay for the frozen semen start-up by
imposing something called an Annual Activity Fee. Call it what you will but
most will call it what it is, a TAX! Its no small amount either. AKC is
talking about an initial (you know what that means) tax of $25.00 for each
dog, each year you exhibit the dog. But not to worry, the couple million
bucks from the Exhibition Tax will be used to help fund other worthwhile
programs. There. That should make every exhibitor feel much better. Unless
the new income to the not-for-profit AKC is over estimated because surely
the tax is will impact already declining entries. Then there's the
"Whoa!!!"
effect on the first-time exhibitor or the novice who is wavering about
continuing such an expensive "hobby."
AKC imposed a 700% increase on the Event Recording Fee in 2008 (see AKC
Economics) but when it tried to float an unlimited Recording fee
"tax"
increase in June 2008, the Delegates finally said "no way." So is the
"Annual Activity Fee", aka Exhibition Tax just a work-around?
Original article is here:
http://www.thedogpress.com/ClubNews/AKC/0901-News_BJA.asp
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