Quoting Lisi Reisz ([email protected]): > On Sunday 09 August 2015 20:23:34 Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 11:50:48 +0100 > > > > Brad Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 06:43:15 -0400 > > > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Renaud, > > > > > > >I cannot understand why the UK has not followed the other countries > > > >that have ditched TV licensing, and all the attending bureaucracy, > > > >and replaced it with a single check box on the income tax form... > > > > > > Because it's not a tax. The money doesn't go to the govt, it goes to > > > the BBC. License revenue is still 40% (IIRC) of their revenue. > > > > Non-payment is a criminal offence, not a breach of contract, and is > > potentially punishable by imprisonment. > > > > The BBC does not have the powers of prosecution and imprisonment. > > > > Where the money ends up is irrelevant, it is collected by UK law, > > enforced by the UK government and courts. > > > > If it walks like a duck, etc., and when the government robs me, it's > > called 'tax'.
When I was a boy, the TV licence fee was taxed (called "duty") by the government at 33%. > I agree. A HYpothecated tax. Unlike most hypothecated taxes, however, it is > actually spent on that for which it is intended. Perhaps that's why the government is unhappy with the situation: they hate hypothecated taxes. Here, property taxes vary by town and county, and the sales tax varies from one side of the street to the other! http://cityofmhk.com/1486/Manhattan-Taxes Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150809221317.GB15659@alum
