The BBC's Hidden Horror Story
Rockin Robert
Privateers Capita Business Services Ltd. out-bid the (government's) General Post Office to collect the £3billion per-year license 'fee', thus TVLicnesing Authority lost it's 'Authority' and is now just TVLicensing. The ‘fee’ inexplicably jumped up by £20 a few years back – then it was discovered it was to cover the 17.5% VAT (Value Added Tax) that applies to all commercial businesses once Capita took over collecting the FEE/TAX. That’s appx. £500 million per year paid to Customs and Excise that is apparently written-off / deducted from Capita’s annual tax liability. Nice ‘work’ if you can get it – huh?
According to recent decree of the National Statistics Office, said TVLicense is now a "tax" (that should be deductible from income tax, meaning a net gain of virtually zero and/or ZERO rated regarding VAT).
What used to be bureaucratic waste is now price gouging for privatised shareholders, complete with ‘cost-cutting’ and massive job losses – especially when interest rates go up. The thugs they use to inspect and enforce the TV Tax routinely violate the law, from: violent assault to Aggravated Trespass to harassment infractions – plus TVLiceinsing employees masquerade as court officials in TLV’s private courts (using public courthouses) to punish over 400,000 FEE/TAX dodgers per year, including routine jailing of single mothers.
Now it’s wall-to-wall cheap TV imports and inane game and chat shows plus spinning vacuous mind-war News as the norm … just like ‘normal’ crap ‘commercial’ TV – TA DA!
Guess what folks? Privatization gone wrong is ... fascism.
FIND: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile
to learn what fascism is and where it came from.