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How do vets justify £50 on a bandage

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Woodward23 · 06/07/2023 19:16

Our dog cut her self today on a walk and we had to take her to vets, the bill came to £130! Consultation medicine i can understand but £50 of that bill was for it to be bandaged up just how do they justify that cost! I know no one can probably help but I just needed to vent to get it out of my system

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DogInATent · 11/07/2023 07:58

Why is 'profit' a dirty word to some people?
Because knowledge of business matters and terminology amongst the geberal public is very poor. It's falsely assumed that profit is always leaving the business and means that someone is getting a flash car.

AP5Diva · 11/07/2023 08:03

DogInATent · 11/07/2023 07:58

Why is 'profit' a dirty word to some people?
Because knowledge of business matters and terminology amongst the geberal public is very poor. It's falsely assumed that profit is always leaving the business and means that someone is getting a flash car.

Net profits usually do leave the business by being paid as dividends to shareholders, who may indeed buy flash cars or in the case of Phillip Green a luxury £200m yacht to bask on and in the case of his wife, a massive country estate with a Manor House.

Any excess revenues that are reinvested into the business via say capital expenditures or tech refreshes are able to be deducted from the gross profit calculation so it becomes essentially nontaxable profit.

You then calculate and deduct your corporation tax bill and that gives you net profit- which is most often paid out in dividends.

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