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312 points dcminter | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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cooper_ganglia ◴[21 Oct 24 19:34 UTC] No.41907633[source]▶
A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK.

Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.

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TillE ◴[21 Oct 24 19:36 UTC] No.41907663[source]▶
It's basically a whole parallel tax collection system, which is truly nuts. Like the administrative overhead alone surely outweighs any abstract concerns about independence from government, which doesn't really exist in the UK anyway.
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1. bpfrh ◴[21 Oct 24 19:46 UTC] No.41907775[source]▶
depends on the system, austria for example used to say if you don't have a radio or tv you do not need to pay.

As of 2024 you pay even if you have no tv, which means the overhead is probably near zero, as you already have lists of where people live.

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2. fwsgonzo ◴[21 Oct 24 20:22 UTC] No.41908166[source]▶
Same here in Norway.