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"Computer Tax"

Stupid Tessa Jowell...

[URL]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1508650,00.html[/URL]

Very_Metal wrote:
> apparantly if you can prove that you never watch the BBC channels, you
> don't have to pay for a TV license.

No, that's wrong. You don't have to pay a license if you can prove that you only use the TV for DVD/VHS, but they put you through hell before they will relent.

Stupid idea, it's not as if the Government provide a service to net users.

balls

apparantly if you can prove that you never watch the BBC channels, you don't have to pay for a TV license.

If you have a TV you need a TV licence, even if you don't watch the TV, although if you don't actually watch TV then they can't detect whether you have one or not, so they'll never know.

For the Internet it's much easier to tell if someone's using the internet or not, because they're paying an ISP. Putting VAT on subscription bills is a more feasible idea.

Do you to have a TV lisence if you don't actually recieve TV signals on it? Say you just play games or watch DVDs on it?

Can I spell?

I see what they're saying but a computer tax would be wrong.


Perhaps a VAT style tax on ISP's would be more realistic, but I can't see myself liking that either! :-)

But The Government doesn't really provide us with anything to do with computers or the internet, so surely they have no right to tax us. If the BBC is losing money on internet content then they shouldn't have any, or ask for a subscription fee.
Surely we already pay the government tax when we buy the damn computer anyway.

Also what about people who have PCs but dont use them for the internet? They are paying tax for something that they can't use.

You can't taz(haha) somebody for having a computer, that's stupid.

I say we introduce t-shirt and scarf tax.

Don't mess with the bi