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AUG 19, 05:17 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:
Remember when they used to not tax how much air we breathed? or how much water we used?
I'd like to walk around the block, but I have to stay in the chair because I wasn't able to pay my "how far you've walked this month" tax.
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"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street.
If you try to sit, sit I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat.
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet."
-George Harrison
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randye
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AUG 19, 05:37 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:
At least I don't have to pay for a tv license...
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Not yet....
Yearly TV License Fee in Different Countries
•Albania - €6.30 per household.
•Austria – Fees vary by state – Styria €284 to Upper Austria €223, radio €80. Would Joseph Fritzl have needed a separate TV license for his private prison?
•Belgium (Wallonia) - €149 for TV/per household €26,72 for a car radio but house radio is free.
•Bosnia - €36. Each household is charged along with the telephone bill.
•Croatia - €137
•Denmark - €288 ingenuously called Media Licence Fee. This covers TVs. Computers with Internet access above 256 kbit/s or with TV tuners and mobile phones, which can receive broadcast TV. Radio only licence is €43.
•Finland - €252. TV licence fee inspectors knock on those people’s doors who haven’t paid, but you don’t need to let them in if you don’t want to. Update: 9.11.2012 -The new TV-tax, coming in force from 1.1.2013 is 0.68% of income and capital gains per person. The maximum amount of TV-tax per person is 140€/person no matter how high the income may be.
•France - €116. Added to the local tax bill to reduce collection costs. 30% of government owned France Television’s revenues come from advertising.
•Germany – 204 billed monthly in German precision but paid quarterly. The unemployed, disabled and those living solely on government support need not pay.
•Ghana – Stupendous amount of 0.30 Euro cents billed per household. There are rumours that even government ministers do not pay.
•Greece - €51, charged per electricity connection and paid with the electric bill.
•Iceland – The most expensive TV licence fee in the world - €346.
•Ireland - €160. Once you are over 70 or blind, you need not pay. Last year 54 people were jailed for not paying. Fines range from €635 for a first offence and €1,270 for a second.
•Israel - €70/year to fund Israel Broadcasting Authority, but the channels also get commercial "sponsoring".
•Italy – A delightfully Italian affair. Licence fee is €106 per household with TV sets or computers, mobile phones, video-intercoms, which can receive broadcast. The penalty for non-payment is only half of the licence fee plus the licence. 40% of households, especially people living in the sunny south do not pay.
•Japan – Known in Japanese as reception fee or 受信料 is €110 for terrestrial and €165 for satellite. Over 1 million Japanese do not pay, as you need not let TV inspectors into your house. Office workers and students who commute get discounts. People in Okinawa, famous for the longest life expectancy in the world also pay lower rates.
•Korea (South) - €25/year through electricity bills.
•Macedonia - €25.30 per year
•Malta - €34.40 per year.
•Mauritius - €30 and Pakistan €3 both collect the fee with the electricity bill.
•Norway - €270 and Sweden €194 both collect fees per household and not per TV set.
•Pakistan - Rupees 300 (€4) collected as Rs.25 per month with electricity bills to fund PTV.
•Poland – €53 for TV and €17 for radio. Households need one TV licence per household but commercial premises one licence per TV set. 98% of businesses and 45% of households do not pay as TV inspectors may not inspect premises without permission from owners.
•Romania - €12
•UK – Very Big Brother (in an Orwellian sense) approach with adverts reminding of "a database of 28 million addresses that shows who does and who does not have a current TV licence". TV license reminder slogan ‘Your Arse Won’t be Safe in Prison’ reception detection vans and intrepid high-tech “enforcement officers” with hand-held devices. £142.50 colour £48.00 BW billed per household. People over 75 do not pay. The legally blind pay only half. Penalty for non-payment is £1000 + legal costs. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair use MP’s expenses and do not pay out of their pockets.
•Zimbabwe - Z$10 million per year for each TV set in companies, Z$3 million for office radios and Z$5 million for car radios. Data from 2007.
https://originalwavelength....-you-pay-for-tv.html
Some of these may have changed since 2009. Some for the better and some for the worse....[This message has been edited by randye (edited 08-19-2021).]
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theogre
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AUG 19, 11:41 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:
At least I don't have to pay for a tv license... |
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In the US many have Cable that include Broadcast Fees that are Fees paid to local station owners for to have local news etc on the "cable."
That on top of cable $ and other fees and taxes.
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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AUG 20, 01:26 AM
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I knew about the tv licenses, but do you remember when you could freely pass gas? (darn butt-vapor monitoring tech)
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maryjane
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AUG 20, 01:59 AM
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| quote | | UK – Very Big Brother (in an Orwellian sense) approach with adverts reminding of "a database of 28 million addresses that shows who does and who does not have a current TV licence". TV license reminder slogan ‘Your Arse Won’t be Safe in Prison’ reception detection vans and intrepid high-tech “enforcement officers” with hand-held devices. £142.50 colour £48.00 BW billed per household. People over 75 do not pay. The legally blind pay only half. Penalty for non-payment is £1000 + legal costs. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair use MP’s expenses and do not pay out of their pockets. |
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There are youtube vids of 'inspectors/goons' trying to gain entry into people's homes and it often turns ugly.
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AUG 20, 01:25 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:
do you remember when you could freely pass gas? (darn butt-vapor monitoring tech) |
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https://www.amazon.com/Unde...ssment/dp/B01BYGTP8G
"This is The Solution You've Been Waiting for"
You gotta fool the sensors. 
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