So you didn't say this in post #324?
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It would be difficult politically to put a BBC precept on every council tax bill across the UK, however wholesale reform, creating a broadcasting authority with broad responsibility for public tv, radio and communications infrastructure and allowing that to set precepts might work.
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And this in #327?
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Not really ... Tony Hall agrees a universal precept is a means of doing it, nothing I’ve said above contradicts that. I’m thinking more along the lines of which authority should collect and distribute money collected in that way. I think it would be politically awkward for the BBC to do so directly.
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post #335.
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Changes in technology may now mean the licence fee mechanism is no longer fit for purpose but it does not follow that the concept of publicly funded, public service broadcasting is no longer fit for purpose. A different means of collecting public funds may be required, and a precept on council tax is a way of doing it.
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Pointing out that it doesn't address the main complaints about the current system, and that no other European country(including Germany) use councils to collect it, is perfectly valid.
At least, when the question arose about the German household tax, I asked the question and did the research for, "how does it work", only to find it has no connection at all. It is the German system of registering your address that has any connection. In the UK, people often don't register a change of address to any authorities. Eg Somebody can be chased for council tax at their old address, because they haven't told the council they've moved out, and the new occupant hasn't told them they've moved in.