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a good cause for the offroaders!
Wanderer:
Our lot were going to add a digital levy on top of the BBC license. In the UK the license fee keeps the BBC going. They should have to fight on an even playing field with everyone else.
Ed
V8MoneyPit:
Yep, it is a ludicrous system, just like road tax. Sorry 'road fund licence'... yeah, right! Like it funds the roads :x Why the BBC won't take advertising like all the others defeats me.
Sooty:
They keep on telling use it is our BBC, Cobblers, do I get to say what they put on, do I hell.
Can't even vote with my wallet and pay the money to someone else, if it was a private company and not goverment owned they would say it was illegal (competition commision would not allow it).
Like everthing else in this country, one rule for the them and another rule for us!!!
ian_s:
the security guards were cheering the tv licence guys on! the guards hate students cos all we did was cause trouble for them. the way we read the rules on it afterwards, was that as we all had seperate tenancy agreements, i.e. one per room, we all needed seperate tv licences.
when me a few friends moved into a house, with all 6 names on the tenancy, we only needed 1 licence. we didnt have one, but heyho.
V8MoneyPit:
But I'm glad to see they are spending our money so wisely. Well, at least £17,000 of it anyway! How long will it take them to recover the costs?
Let's say the Freelander is the cheap one at £17000.
Depreciation after a year is about £5000.
Fuel/running costs, well.... that is difficult, but let's assume they are doing 40k miles in the year. At 25mpg and nearly £4 per gallon, that makes £6400. Then £1000 servicing in that mileage. Road tax at £170. That makes £7570.
Labour - say £20000. Is there just one or 2 people? So could be £40000.
Total - £69570.
A colour TV licence is £160 if I remember correctly. That means they have to recover 435 licence fees to pay for it. So, assuming no working at weekends with overtime (more cost!), they would have to recover 2 fees per day. Not totally sure that is likely in a rural area, is it?
Well, that occupied some working time. Good job I am my own boss :D
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