If it is anything like the TV license, it will be levied on the occupant.
This is problematic, as there is no national register of occupants. The private rented sector has a lot of turnover. What about student accommodation, co-living, etc?
They should really just bite the bullet and fund the public service part of RTÉ it out of general taxation. Much cheaper to collect and more equitable.
My concern with that is that RTE would just start grabbing more and more money from weak governments, they will see it as a bottomless pit of funding.
Not necessarily so.
You just have a committee of the wise who makes a recommendation to the relevant minister every year about funding levels.
It could be linked to clear performance targets - overseen by a regulator - for public service outputs. Tubridy's wages, etc, could come from the commercial revenue.
Not sure. In theory that should work but in Ireland Quangos like that usually get captured by the industry pretty quickly. See Comreg.
Equitable assuming all who avail of the service are tax payers: why should take payers be subsidising the .....If it is anything like the TV license, it will be levied on the occupant.
This is problematic, as there is no national register of occupants. The private rented sector has a lot of turnover. What about student accommodation, co-living, etc?
They should really just bite the bullet and fund the public service part of RTÉ it out of general taxation. Much cheaper to collect and more equitable.
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