TV LICENSING

BBC **** wrote:
||| The exact response for a $ky NG.
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||| IF the licence fee is scrapped and we're stuck with 10 minute commercial
||| channels then what??
||| The Same crap service we get from Sky right now...
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|| of which the present BBC through UK TV have major culpability for
|| already.
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|| And who evented "dumbing down"? The BBC.
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|| We'd be far better off without over paying these parasites.
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It's a tax. Get over it and just pay it!

You don't want to? You don't like it?

Oh well, when you drive a car, you are forced to pay the so called "Road
fund licence", and you know that most of the money you are paying doesn't go
to "fund the roads" Yet you still pay it. Why? Because it's law. Ok then,
if it's law and you're willing to pay for road tax, then pay the tv licence.

Why?

BECAUSE IT'S LAW!!!

Get over it sad act.

Oh well, when you drive a car, you are forced to pay the so called "Road
fund licence", and you know that most of the money you are paying doesn't
go
to "fund the roads" Yet you still pay it. Why? Because it's law. Ok then,
if it's law and you're willing to pay for road tax, then pay the tv
licence.

Yeah but you're only taxed if you drive your car on public roads, simply
owning a car doesn't mean you have to pay road tax. i guess its like being
made to pay road tax when you only drive your car on private roads.

It's a tax. Get over it and just pay it!

You don't want to? You don't like it?

Oh well, when you drive a car, you are forced to pay the so called "Road
fund licence", and you know that most of the money you are paying doesn't go
to "fund the roads" Yet you still pay it. Why? Because it's law. Ok then,
if it's law and you're willing to pay for road tax, then pay the tv licence.

Why?

BECAUSE IT'S LAW!!!

Get over it sad act.


**** off **** wit. Comments that dumb belong on the BBC.

So if it's a tax, why is not extracted using more proportional means
such as via a purchase tax or through income tax?

Why is it permitted to allow 2 MILLION people or 5.6% of the population
to evade it? If the Inland Revenue were that incompetent, there would be
a national outrage!

A tax that only 94.4% actually pay up is surely an injustice!

I wonder what Sky or TopUp TV's "evasion" rate is?





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It's a tax. Get over it and just pay it!

You don't want to? You don't like it?

Oh well, when you drive a car, you are forced to pay the so called "Road
fund licence", and you know that most of the money you are paying
doesn't go
to "fund the roads" Yet you still pay it. Why? Because it's law. Ok
then,
if it's law and you're willing to pay for road tax, then pay the tv
licence.

Why?

BECAUSE IT'S LAW!!!

Get over it sad act.


**** off **** wit. Comments that dumb belong on the BBC.

So if it's a tax, why is not extracted using more proportional means
such as via a purchase tax or through income tax?

Why is it permitted to allow 2 MILLION people or 5.6% of the population
to evade it? If the Inland Revenue were that incompetent, there would be
a national outrage!

A tax that only 94.4% actually pay up is surely an injustice!

I wonder what Sky or TopUp TV's "evasion" rate is?





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If you buy a car from garage how do you get onto a private road unless you
use a public road to get there???
If you buy a car that is delivered to your door how do you get onto a
private road without using a public one to get there???
Pay the tax like everyone else!

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If you buy a car from garage how do you get onto a private road unless you
use a public road to get there???
If you buy a car that is delivered to your door how do you get onto a
private road without using a public one to get there???


Pay the tax like everyone else!

**** off!

If 5% of people don't pay the TV licence when they really should, "Pay
the tax like everyone else" would not really be an accurate statment
since one person in 20 does not pay. (BBC Fact).

The point is income tax, VAT, stamp duty, is very hard to evade for the
average person. You can't sell a house, work PAYE, or buy anything in a
shop without paying these taxes.

The TV Licence is disproprtionately unfair because 2 million people
evade it plus there is a further wad of exemptions for children and over
75's.

If people want to claim the BBC is a taxable item (and not just a ****
entertainment company for thick viewers), surely if it is to be treated
as a "tax" then it should be collected as effectively as a tax?

The BBC's own figures even suggests that the majority of people fined
for "licence fee" evasion don't even pay the fines.

The crime of licence fee evasion which every tax pay pays for to push
through the criminal justice system at millions of man hours per year,
makes a mockery of the law. 2 million acts of one crime with only
100,000 convictions? Not one penny of cash recovered to the "victim" of
this crime?

Let's see £1000 fines for evasion. Nay, make it £5000 and one testicle.

Let's have lengthy prison sentences for evaders. How about 90 days?

Let's have detector vans prying on peoples TV screens.

How about some floggings and show trials too?

And lets have a uniformed militia of "enforcement officers" wearing
peaked caps frisking people and searching homes so that Graham Norton is
kept in white power.

In the interests of keeping Natash ****witskly on air, lets imprison 2
million evaders!

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That's a matter of opinion. The matter of fact is that there is currently
no
lawful choice but to buy a tv license if you use any form of tv signal
receiving equipment even if you don't actually use the equipment to watch
BBC. There were a number of published problems in this regard in the days
of
8 bit computing where people were effectively shafted for using a tv as a
dedicated computer monitor.

I've no argument with that, I WAS personally caught out by that myself, A
neighbour was fined for not having a colour TV licence because she had a B/W
TV but a VCR classed as a colur receiver!

The tv license amounts to a significant tax on almost every household in
the
UK - irrespective of whether or not they can afford it, irrespective of
whether or not they use the service and irrespective of whether or not
they
would choose to spend their money elsewhere (for example on Sky or NTL or
anything else for that matter).

"irrespective of whether or not they can afford it" and Sky or Especially
NTL don't exactly match in the same paragraph :-/

Perhaps if the BBC went back to being encrypted and the licence fee
*sneaked* onto Sky or NTL's monthly subs, I doubt anyone would notice.
The problem there is Sky would simply have more of a monopoly than they do
now.

I'm just simply glad to see the BBC advertisement free for their fee when
Sky can get away a ridiculous amount AND have advertising...Even on PPV now.

I doubt many like the licence fee (much like those that open their pay
packets and see the amount of tax paid)
The problem is what happens IF the licence is scrapped...The BBc like Sky
charging a sub and advertising??

[email protected] wrote:
Oh well, when you drive a car, you are forced to pay the so called
"Road fund licence", and you know that most of the money you are
paying doesn't go to "fund the roads" Yet you still pay it. Why?
Because it's law. Ok then, if it's law and you're willing to pay for
road tax, then pay the tv licence.

Yeah but you're only taxed if you drive your car on public roads,
simply owning a car doesn't mean you have to pay road tax. i guess
its like being made to pay road tax when you only drive your car on
private roads.

Simply owning a TV does not mean you have to pay the licence. It you only
use it to receive "private" signals - ie from Video/DVD player etc instead
of broadcast (BBC or other FTV or not) you don't need a licence.