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In September 2008, the BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust, launched a review of TV Licensing's methods, [71] following complaints about "heavy-handed" and "intimidating" tactics [107] and during December 2008, it was reported by the press that the chairman of the all-party Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee had accused TV Licensing of ...
The BBC will not be funded from general taxation if the TV licence fee is abolished, the culture secretary has said. Lisa Nandy told BBC Breakfast the licence fee was "deeply regressive" and that ...
The BBC, to administer [14] the collection of television licence fees and enforce the television licensing system, subcontracts to companies who use the trademark TV Licensing. [15] The BBC is a public authority in respect of its television licensing functions and retains overall responsibility. [15] subcontractor companies
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A panel of leading production figures discussed the future of the BBC’s funding model at the Edinburgh TV Festival. BBC licence fee review ‘feels like massive red herring to attack broadcaster ...
On 1 January 2019, the television licence (Swedish: TV-avgift, literally TV fee) in Sweden was scrapped and replaced by a "general public service fee" (Swedish: allmän public service-avgift), which is a flat income-based public broadcasting tax of 1 per cent, capped at 1,300 Swedish kronor (approximately US$145 or €126) per person per year ...
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The BBC pursues its licence fee collection and enforcement under the trading name "TV Licensing". The revenue is collected privately by Capita, an outside agency, and is paid into the central government Consolidated Fund, a process defined in the Communications Act 2003.