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Why not just tax TV sales? That's much easier to enforce, and has ultimately almost the same effect.
by DavidSJ 6y ago
Why not just tax TV sales? That's much easier to enforce, and has ultimately almost the same effect.
- Glawen 6y agoIn an era where we buy things on Amazon, which is famous for not paying all the due taxes, how do you plan to enforce this? Also, I live 5km from the german border, I will just buy my TV there. What was/is? existing is that every for every TV sales, you had to give your name to the shop, which would transmit it to the taxman.
- danparsonson 6y agoIt's not a recurring revenue stream like a subscription though; they'd need to apply a lot of tax to recover the same amount of money (something like £10/month IIRC)
- Faaak 6y agoWhat if you buy your TV overseas ?
- ChrisRR 6y agoBecause the TV licence is something like 140 quid a year and you only buy a new tv every 10 years or so So you'd have to add an extra 1400 quid onto the price of every TV as tax. That'd easily triple the cost of your average TV
- steerablesafe 6y agoYou are allowed to have a TV set if you don't pay for TV license. It's just you are not allowed to watch live TV.
- gpmcadam 6y agoOne of the alternate mechanisms for funding includes the proposal of a so-called "Broadband Levy" which would be included on all subscriptions in the country and would replace the license fee, given the nature of viewing habits have significantly changed in the past 10 years.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoWhy should I be forced to fund it?