It appears to be official now that the BBC licence fee is a tax, not a service charge.
The Licence Fee: It’s a Tax
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Oh yes I saw that when I was doing my CBI posts, but didn’t see the significance of the point. I left the BBC and its tax out of my revenue calculations though so it was a wash either way.
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The Office of National Statistics changed this earlier this year.
See http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/PSB_article_190106.pdf for details, and their reasoning.
It does seem right – the licence fee is a tax. -
Well I’m officially a Tax Avoider.
and Proud! Now to work on the 50% of my salary the state extorts. -
The thing that ticks me off about it is that if one *doesn’t* have a TV, they make you go through a whole rigmarole to prove it to them – letters, phone calls where they say things like “What! You don’t have a television! Are you sure?”.
Rather than engaging with it this time, I am just throwing the letters in the bin.
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