Richard Lockwood wrote:
If you want to even it up, why not put a charge, or an annual license on
each device capable of viewing BBC content?
Or, more reasonably, per-person (unless you know people who watch 2 devices at
once?). Or make it PAYG? With a flat fee option? Discounted with a family
Someone who earns 14K per annum pays 1% of their income in TV Licensing,
someone who earns 140K pays only 0.1%, (assuming both own a colour
television), (figures not exact).
Anyone else think that is a little bit unfair? Wouldn't a proportional
or progressive tax be fairer?
NO!
H.
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On 06/05/2008, Helen Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone who earns 14K per annum pays 1% of their income in TV
Licensing,
someone who earns 140K pays only 0.1%, (assuming both own a colour
television), (figures not exact).
Anyone else think that is a little bit unfair? Wouldn't
Andy wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
There is quite a reasonable argument that the TV License, which is
used to fund BBC television and radio, is a regressive tax, so someone
on benefits pays the same as a millionaire.
Or to put it another way The less you earn, the more you pay as a
On 06/05/2008, Helen Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone who earns 14K per annum pays 1% of their income in TV
Licensing,
someone who earns 140K pays only 0.1%, (assuming both own a colour
television), (figures not exact).
Anyone else think that is a little bit
Andy wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
There is quite a reasonable argument that the TV License, which is
used to fund BBC television and radio, is a regressive tax, so someone
on benefits pays the same as a millionaire.
Or to put it another way The less you earn, the more you pay as a
On 5/6/08, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I go to Morrisons this evening to buy four bottles of Timothy Taylor
Landlord (other supermarkets and beers are available), do they ask me at the
checkout how much I earn before deciding how much to charge me? No. Well
then - it's
If I go to Morrisons this evening to buy four bottles of Timothy
Taylor Landlord (other supermarkets and beers are available), do they ask me
at the checkout how much I earn before deciding how much to charge me? No.
Well then - it's exactly the same with the TV license.
But
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:39 +0100, Richard Lockwood wrote:
If I go to Morrisons this evening to buy four bottles
of Timothy Taylor Landlord (other supermarkets and
beers are available), do they ask me at the checkout
how much I
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in the BBC the many fund the many - but apart from that I
2008/5/4 Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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On Friday 02 May 2008 04:39:23 Brian Butterworth wrote:
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*ADD A 3% TAX TO SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION*
How do you justify this ? Why not DVD sales? Why not cinema tickets? Why
not theatre? Why not ... ?
Yoy may not have noticed but Channel 4 is a television channel.
If you're going to
in the BBC the many fund the many - but apart from that I agree entirely
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2008/5/2 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Friday 02 May 2008 04:39:23 Brian Butterworth wrote:
...
*ADD A 3% TAX TO SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION*
How do you justify this ? Why not DVD sales? Why not cinema tickets?
Why
not theatre? Why not ... ?
Yoy may not have noticed but Channel 4
2008/5/2 Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Whilst TV matters to a lot of people (including me :-) it is however
*just*
TV.
Yes, a 3% level on subscription TV to support those people who can't
afford it. Seems just and just TV to me.
In most economic systems the few fund the
2008/4/30 Nick Reynolds-FMT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The BBC Trust regularly looks at BBC services to see if they make
sense in a rolling programme of reviews of service licences, which
include public consultations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/bbc_service_licences/service_rev
ice_licences/online/online_servicelicences/bbc_co_uk_servicelicence_30ap
r2007.pdf
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New BBC services now have to go through a market impact assessment
to ensure they are not anti
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New BBC services now have to go through a market impact assessment
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: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by
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single US citizen
New BBC services now have to go through a market impact assessment
to ensure they are not anti competitive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/public_value_test/#part-5
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New BBC services now have to go through a market
: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked
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New BBC services now have to go through a market impact
assessment
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BTW, I've had a really bright idea to stop needing to 'top slice' the TV
License Fee:
There is a PSB
On Thursday 01 May 2008 13:37:35 Brian Butterworth wrote:
BTW, I've had a really bright idea to stop needing to 'top slice' the TV
License Fee:
There is a PSB funding option that no-one seems to be considering. It's a
really, really, simple obvious one. It re-distributive, simple to
2008/5/1 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 01 May 2008 13:37:35 Brian Butterworth wrote:
BTW, I've had a really bright idea to stop needing to 'top slice' the TV
License Fee:
There is a PSB funding option that no-one seems to be considering. It's
a
really, really, simple obvious
He does have a point though that the BBC is anti competitive. I
personally think the bbc is great for consumers, and that the quality of
bbc news is the only thing stopping uk tv news turning into something
like american news, but any of that could change, since the bbc isn't
controlled by
Quoting Thom Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
He does have a point though that the BBC is anti competitive.
Coming from the owner of BSkyB and part-owner of ITV that's not the
most convincing argument. ;-)
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Thom Shannon wrote:
He does have a point though that the BBC is anti competitive. I
personally think the bbc is great for consumers, and that the quality of
bbc news is the only thing stopping uk tv news turning into something
like american news, but any of that could change, since the bbc
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single US citizen
Thom Shannon wrote:
He does have a point though that the BBC is anti competitive. I
personally think the bbc is great for consumers, and that the quality
of bbc news
New BBC services now have to go through a market impact assessment to
ensure they are not anti competitive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/public_value_test/#part-5
but existing BBC services (ie everything other than iPlayer and BBC
HD) have not been and will not be subject to such
suppose.
Brendan.
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New BBC services now have to go
@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a
single US citizen
New BBC services now have to go through a market impact assessment
to ensure they are not anti competitive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/public_value_test/#part-5
but existing BBC
James Murdoch was born in the UK and is a British citizen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murdoch_(media_executive)
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/M-R/Murdoch-James-1972.html
It could be argued that they would lose more by not buying a stake in ITV.
J
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