Conservative MP, John Whittingdale is the head of the BBC and wants to end the TV Liecense - Polidicks

Families earning in lower boundaries should get an exemption/reduction in TV tax. otherwise i don't see why anyone should be so objected to it. perhaps a good alternative would be taking a certain percentage of VAT for TV sales and putting that in to the BBC

The BBC? Unbiased? Who are you fooling?

We have the same stupid shit here, except here, all it takes is a phone call to have the fee removed. The inspectors cannot legally enter your apartment to check if you have a TV, and they have no other way of verifying it. Even if they do know you have a TV, you can simply place a call to the agency handling it and say "I threw it out/gave it away/it's not in my possession anymore" and they'll remove it. It's a stupid fee, and I have absolutely no understanding of why it's still used, nor applied. It should have been removed ages ago.

[QUOTE=The fox;47717235]We have the same stupid shit here, except here, all it takes is a phone call to have the fee removed. The inspectors cannot legally enter your apartment to check if you have a TV, and they have no other way of verifying it. Even if they do know you have a TV, you can simply place a call to the agency handling it and say "I threw it out/gave it away/it's not in my possession anymore" and they'll remove it. It's a stupid fee, and I have absolutely no understanding of why it's still used, nor applied. It should have been removed ages ago.[/QUOTE] I had a call from these idiots when I moved and they asked if I had a TV-receiver. So I said no, I don't. Then they continued asking if I had a device with which I could watch TV. I said the only thing I have is two computer monitors. Two days later a letter plops down saying I should pay the license fee. I called them up and some sour old fart on the other end was like "well you weren't clear enough" Like fuck you, YOU weren't clear enough! Nasty people. Nasty license. Nasty rules.

[QUOTE=Vasili;47717072]The BBC? Unbiased? Who are you fooling?[/QUOTE] compared to channel 4 the bbc are impartial as you can get

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;47717247] Like fuck you, YOU weren't clear enough! Nasty people. Nasty license. Nasty rules.[/QUOTE] The fee still applied to computers until a few months back, might have been that. Not paying any myself, got a TV though, so fuck 'em for all I care. Never gonna pay for that and never have.

If his issue is that poor people can't afford it, then why not make it scale based on income? Start off with a flat rate of £25 a month or something like that, and for every £1000 of [I]net[/I] take-home money, you could add a couple of quid, maybe a fiver. Then no matter what your income, it would still be a negligible amount in comparison to the money you actually make. [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] Okay, apparently it's £150 a year. [I]Really[/I]? Okay, then have it be £25 a year, add a tenner per grand of salary.

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47717504]If his issue is that poor people can't afford it, then why not make it scale based on income? Start off with a flat rate of £25 a month or something like that, and for every £1000 of [I]net[/I] take-home money, you could add a couple of quid, maybe a fiver. Then no matter what your income, it would still be a negligible amount in comparison to the money you actually make. [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] Okay, apparently it's £150 a year. [I]Really[/I]? Okay, then have it be £25 a year, add a tenner per grand of salary.[/QUOTE] £150 a year is half the £25 a month you were suggesting [editline]14th May 2015[/editline] For that plan to work you'd have to somehow link TV Licencing up with HM Revenue & Customs so they know how much people earn, and beware because the closer BBC finance gets to government finance, the greater the risk that the BBC's independence will suffer as government influence over them increases

[QUOTE=Vasili;47717072]The BBC? Unbiased? Who are you fooling?[/QUOTE] They're as unbiased as it gets anywhere and are one of the most well respected news institutions in the world.

[QUOTE=UberMensch;47715064]The license fee is also payable quarterly and I believe monthly now. There's really no excuse as a smoking addiction costs far more than the TV License fee.[/QUOTE] Except for the fact that people don't have to smoke, but do have to pay the license fee if they watch television live? I pay the license fee, watch most things online, and like much of what the BBC produces, but I don't think that it is fair that if you wish to watch a non-license fee funded channel live, you are still not allowed to do so. Even if you do not pay the license and do not watch live television, lots of people are often endlessly harassed by the enforcement officers.

Is "Liecense" a typo or is that intentional

I completely missed the fact that the title says he's head of the BBC which is not true at all

The tories only get so upset about the BBC because they don't suck their dicks like the paper press which is mostly dominated by Murdoch. I guess there's the Guardian but they're too busy writing articles about organic vegetarian recipes to worry about politics.