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Originally Posted by scastle
it would be interesting to see what happens if you go to court challenging the TV licence company because the tax they impose is "illegal".
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The magistrates would completely ignore an attempt like that to argue a point of law, in all likelihood. You would have to appeal the conviction they gave you all the way to the Lords, spending a small fortune and wasting years of your life in the process. And at the end of it all I'm pretty sure the Lords would be unimpressed too.
If the TV licence were an 'illegal tax', I think committed BBC-haters like Gerald Kaufman would have been pursuing that angle decades ago.