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Originally Posted by Chris T
Nope, you don't pay tax on cigarettes, you pay duty. There is a small but significant difference, you pay a fixed amount of duty every time you buy the specific product to which duty has been applied.
The TV licence is not a tax on TV ownership, it is a licence to use a TV within the UK to receive broadcast television signals. The drivers' licence is not a tax on being allowed to drive or own a car. You can know how to drive and yet be unlicenced, and you can own a car yet be unlicenced. The drivers' licence is a document that entitles you to drive on British roads.
The difference between the TV licence and the drivers' licence is the proceeds of the TV licence fund some of the services you are then entitled to view, while the cost of a drivers licence AFAIK is enough to cover the cost of providing it to you.
The TV licence is not by any means unique as a licence to use radio receiving or transmitting equipment. Most of the broadcast spectrum is licenced in one way or another, be it for radio stations or mobile phone companies.
In what way is the TV licence an 'illegal' tax? It was set by Parliament and has never been overturned by the Law Lords, by definition it is therefore legal.  |
Dont know where you got drivers licence from car tax aka vehicle licence duty was brought into the discusion and I pointed out that is also yet another unfair taxation method. Drivers licence is purely a permit to drive. Car tax is a fixed fee no matter how much you use your car, unfair on many who subsidise those who hammer our roads, kind of like the way some users hammer unlimited internet disrupting those who use unlimited internet within reason.
As your only choice is to pay a tv licence or not own any kind of broadcast accepting equipment which is now extended to computers hooked up to the internet, it is an undemocratic fee applied to all despite wetehr they wish to have BBC or not.
We dont watch BBC much at all if it was an option to pay £10 a month subscription or not have bbc we would yes do without bbc. It is not an option and therefore does not fit in a democratic society which we are supposed to be. The way it is forced upon us pay, go to court and get fined extensivly or have no tv is none other than legalised extortion, the only reason it being legal is because the government say so. So the government is yes imo guilty of extortion because they are the law.
You want BBC you pay for it. I do not owe you BBC so I dont see why I should subsidise your pleasure.