| Author | Message | ||
     Robert Noel Reddington Grand Master Username: bob_uk Post Number: 1428 Registered: 5-2015 |
In the UK we are obliged to buy a TV licence @ £148 per year. This funds the BBC. Its a bit like having to buy the Times newspaper before one can read a different newspaper even if you dont read the Times. Up the road from me are warden assisted flats one of the residents is blind so has no TV and yet gets letters demanding he pays for a TV he hasnt got. The other day he even got a visit from the TV guys to make sure he wasnt hiding a TV somewhere. | ||
| Mark Luft Frequent User Username: bentleyman1993 Post Number: 72 Registered: 10-2016 |
Robert, is that for each TV in the abode? | ||
| Jonas TRACHSEL Prolific User Username: jonas_trachsel Post Number: 133 Registered: 2-2005 |
Robert What you pay for a full years' TV we here in Switzerland pay for just 3 months (radio included). Every household and every company. Even if you have no TV in your living room, you could abuse your laptop to watch TV.... On top of these TV-taxes you have to pay for your cable provider extra. I do not know, how much that is, as we have no cable connection to our house, we watch TV from a satellite receiver. But even here they catch you, if you want to watch the regular Swiss programmes you must buy a decoder box, as the signal is encoded. Taxes from birth to grave..... | ||
| Graham Watson Experienced User Username: graham508 Post Number: 49 Registered: 3-2016 |
That's ok, In the US until about 2006 you paid a 3% federal excise tax on long distance calls that was started in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish American war! | ||
| Robert Noel Reddington Grand Master Username: bob_uk Post Number: 1430 Registered: 5-2015 |
each resident has a little flat with a post address. Therefore each resident with a working TV in their flat pays a TV licence. No TV means no licence required. On top of the licence you have to pay for cable or satellite. Its the address that is licenced not the TV owner. Once licenced one can have as many TVs as one desires |
