Some Americans don't even support the idea of driver's licenses. Imagine TV licenses in America. Absolutely mind-boggling.

@wesleybush8646

5 ай бұрын

I am a sovereign citizen and therefore can utilize any service of any kind for free without any consequences. Fight me.

@Helperbot-2000

5 ай бұрын

@@wesleybush8646 wheres the /s?

@alegsb3943

5 ай бұрын

@@wesleybush8646go read the constitution and its amendments and if that’s in there at all please come back and tell me

@DopeSauceBenevolence

5 ай бұрын

And we call those Americans “hit and run drivers.”

@billyjolly4855

5 ай бұрын

That's reasonable to have a licence when your on the road.

The irony that China's is called CCTV

epic crop cutting out exactly the legend of the map

@josieschultz4241

5 ай бұрын

this is the price we pay for not buying airfryers

@wb40t3

5 ай бұрын

@@josieschultz4241 the thing is i did actually buy one

@dragonli1y

5 ай бұрын

It’s his job.

@nathonso_edits

5 ай бұрын

Very on brand

In Sweden, the politicians turned the TV-license into a mandatory fee that every household has to pay. They said it was because they needed to preserve Public Service (State-owned TV and Radio) as an important democratic institution. Despite many people not even owning a TV for watching/listening to those channels. Which was as way used to evade the license fee.

@reineh3477

3 ай бұрын

@Svenskanorden1 en annan del används så museer kan ha gratis inträde, gissar att det används mer av storstadsbor än de på landsbygden.

I feel like you missed the bigger point in Ireland, that if you watch live TV on a mobile or PC (monitor, not TV) you dont need a TV license. Unlike the UK that includes YT live or Amazon prime. Also lived a couple of years in Romania, not once got reminded about any TV license

@fuguthefish

5 ай бұрын

Because there is none. There is a Radio and TV fee paid on your energy bill tho. Later edit: I checked and it was fully removed in 2017.

You don't need one. Don't watch the BBC, iplayer or any 'live' tv. Simple. If the goons turn up. Ignore the door.

@notkaty

5 ай бұрын

Guess you skipped skipped the whole video

@kreuner11

5 ай бұрын

Goon means group mąśturbąter

@DnBclassictunes

5 ай бұрын

@@notkaty no. He explained it. I wrote it and simplified

@joeri5678

5 ай бұрын

​@@kreuner11 It doesn't. Your name in Dutch means moaner.

@Cre9

5 ай бұрын

@@notkatywhat you on about lad?!?

from 2020 NRK have been payed from the states budget. (Norway)

While you are right that Finland does not have a TV license, the State owned broadcasting and media corporation, YLE, is in its entirety funded via tax.

@nathanjohnwade2289

5 ай бұрын

Similar in Australia with the state broadcaster ABC Australia.

@clawud

5 ай бұрын

Portugal is the same, with RTP. There are also public radios paid by the audiovisual tax.

@hauskalainen

5 ай бұрын

In Finland the public broadcaster used to be funded by a flat fee licence but now how much you pay is part of your taxes. If you have a very low income you pay nothing, but there is a cap so the very rich don't pay hugely disproportionately more than everyone else.

@HappyBeezerStudios

5 ай бұрын

The big difference is how the money can be used. Takes go into a big pot and all government funding comes from there. There is no issue-linked tax. But a dedicated license fee can be channeled into broadcasting alone.

@jhutt8002

5 ай бұрын

​@@HappyBeezerStudiosNo, that's not how it works in Finland. We used to have TV License, and when it was removed it was replaced simply with literal Broadcasting Tax, that goes straight to fund Yle.

In Romania you dont need a licence but you have a small fee on your energy bill. You can request the removal of that tho if you don't own a radio or a TV. Later edit: I checked and it was fully removed in 2017.

To be fair, the public service media is worth the tax/the license fee.

@alexpotts6520

5 ай бұрын

I think this is a case where there's a bit of a clash between my personal taste and my political opinion. In terms of the BBC's content; well, the news website alone is probably worth £150 a year to me for all the use I get from it, before I even switch on my television. But I'm not sure that something being worth it to me personally means it should be a mandatory payment for everyone. There is a very simple way of letting people decide whether or not the licence fee is worth it, and that's by turning the BBC into a subscription service ending the prosecutions for people who don't pay.

In Austria you are now forced to pay for the public broadcasting service even if you don't own a TV. They lowered the price per person a bit, but now everyone household has to pay it opposed to before when only the ones using the service had to pay. You don't need a TV license in general anymore, but I think you still have to buy an "ORF-Card" which lets you receive Austria's public broadcast called ORF, but that has been in place for as long as I can remember.

@lembitmoislane.

5 ай бұрын

I don't get why do other people call it "public broadcasting service" instead of "State Media". They are literally the same thing. (And I'm not trying to shame them, I normally watch ETV, the Estonian State Media here. It's just annoying people will pretend it's not what it is)

@forsti3716

5 ай бұрын

@@lembitmoislane. I think it depends on what is covered by the service as that varies quite drastically from country to country. I for example wouldn't be able to evaluate the status in Germany, even though I consume quite a lot of their state funded media, but not even close to that the average German consumes. In Austria's case I think it shouldn't be called "state media". Yes, there are parts of it that you could call state controlled/influenced, but there's much more to it. 3 nationwide radiostations, 2 of them being completely unpolitical. 4 nationwide tv channels that cover various topics. While that is debatable, independent German news stations rate the political debates highly. A huge news portal that covers national & international events of all sorts, some of which are from completely independent authors.

@57thorns

5 ай бұрын

@@lembitmoislane. The difference is how much influence the state has over the content. "State Media" is an outlet that only report what the government wants to report, which (depending no degree of control) what (if any) domestic or foreign entertainment is allowed. Public broadcasting however will have full control over what news to report and what entertainment to send. (With some censorship still being possible, given that the exact same is required from other media in the country.) Then there is the requirement to be impartial that might apply to public broadcasting, but not a privately owned and operated media outlet. This is of course a restriction, but one that leans more towards being public service rather than "state media".

@chickenpommes19

5 ай бұрын

@@lembitmoislane. Theyre not state media, theyre specifically independent of both government or corporate interests.

@taratron

5 ай бұрын

​@lembitmoislane. It's a matter of perspective. Just like how most modern dictatorships call themselves democratic republics, no broadcaster wants to market themselves as "State Media". State Media implies state control, while public broadcasting service implies control by the public. Some countries are better at keeping their PBS at the hands of the public, but any form of PBS and State Media are on a spectrum.

In Germany a guy went to prison because he didn't pay the fee. He didn't want to pay it because he doesn't own any device to receive their content. He got some supporters behind him when this subject made its round on the internet and people would call in on shows of the public broadcasting to ask if they find it ehtical to do that to someone. They all were silenced and shut off immediately. There are also a lot of odd things going on with where the money goes as some employees in higher positions earn insane amounts of money every month and also get to decide how high their salary gets to be. Insane and very frustrating especially for young people.

@rogink

5 ай бұрын

I don't have any kids, but my taxes pay for schools. Charges for public TV and radio are basically taxes to pay for culture, like museums or opera. But, yeah, they should be more transparent.

@256shadesofgrey

5 ай бұрын

@@rogink Do schools actually cost 60% of the money per cycle? Schools make such a tiny fraction of it, you really would be shocked how many billions your government spends on things that you would vehemently oppose if you knew about. Also, whose culture is that money from the TV license being spent on? Because if it was yours, you'd be spending it voluntarily, and wouldn't have to be forced to do it by people with guns.

@rogink

5 ай бұрын

@@256shadesofgrey I don't know what 60% has to do with it but I'm fairly certain I pay more towards schools than TV. But yeah billions are probably wasted on lots of things.

@256shadesofgrey

5 ай бұрын

@@rogink 60% is the total tax burden. As in 40% of the money you spend actually ends up in the hands of the people you are giving it to. The rest is stolen by the government.

@HappyBeezerStudios

5 ай бұрын

@@256shadesofgrey no idea, I don't think they ever broadcasted anything about "my culture" oh wait, they did a special a couple years back about a boat.

You gota loicense for dat proporganda machine

Fun facts about the Polish TV licence: - there's a lower fee that you pay if you have a radio (has the same vibe as the UK's "black and white fee" lol) - if you own a business you have to pay a separate fee for every TV and radio you have (including car radios), individuals "only" pay one fee for all their TVs/radios - The licence is collected by the post office. There's a dedicated group of postal workers who are authorized to go into people's houses and see if they have a TV

@kreuner11

5 ай бұрын

But in the rare case they come, just ignore, and NEVER register to pay the license as they will track you down for eternity

@old_house_1906

5 ай бұрын

id love to challenge toycat to understand recent tvp legal battle...

@oiytd5wugho

5 ай бұрын

point 4: - nobody has been paying for that crap since like 2015 (also, poland should be yellow: lecense + ads + grants)

@michaelwisniewski6047

5 ай бұрын

Important to point out that in Poland basically no one pays it and if you get caught (not sure how that happens or if it ever happens) the penalty is very light. So on Poland it should say "required, but only in theory, and universally ignored"

The map is outdated. Denmark no longer requires a license. The expense is now covered by the treasury. It was abolished at the end of 2021. it was a media license that not only covered TV, but also internet and I think phone service too(both landlines and mobile coverage.).

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

No wonder why mobile phones in Denmark is expensive, as you have to pay the license for both DR and TV2, and pay more for Viaplay and Discovery+.

In case I'm the first Norwegian here 😂 In Norway we used to get a bill in the mail, it was 3200NOK in 2019. Now we just pay a tax and get no bill in the mail. The tax is 1700NOK for a single person, a family of four(two taxpayers) would be taxed around double that amount, or the same as the bill was before.

@essi2

5 ай бұрын

Was about to say, there is no license bill as of 2020, only the progressive tax

Aaaaah... the infamous legal public TV license extortion. Imagine, KZread forces you to pay a 10-20$ fee per month, no matter if you use it or not, while still harassing you with ads all 15 minutes. Lived in Switzerland and went through this, living now in Italy and going through this again. Here in Italy, they even tried to extort a separate business fee (400 yearly) on top of the private fee (around 90/y) cuz I work at home. Denied, of course, but only allowed cuz my PC doesn't have an inbuilt TV reception.

Finland used to have a per-household licence until 10 or so years ago probably. Nowadays, it's been replaced by an explicit per-person "BBC tax", as you suggested the UK one might be. Because many people didn't pay for it even if they had TVs. We also have the religion tax collected just like any other taxes but only for certain religions: the leading protestant and orthodox Christian varieties. You don't have to pay if you don't belong. Relating to media, we also used to have a special tax on storage media like CDs, MP3 players and hard drives to compensate copyright holders for piracy. A piracy tax. And it wasn't insignificant. 0.20 € for a CD or 1.80 € for a >25 GB disc, 18 € for a large HDD. Nowadays it wouldn't be relevant, so instead the compensation is paid straight out of the state budget... And obviously it's not your average struggling artist or independent content creator who gets it...

I'm jealous that UK publiic broadcast actually produces good content in contrast to here in Germany... - while also running ads

@256shadesofgrey

5 ай бұрын

Your statement is true but extremely sad at the same time. Because when you're being extorted and ritually humiliated, you shouldn't be jealous of someone who goes through the same, but gets some entertainment between the struggle sessions. You should be outraged about the people extorting and humiliating you.

@CristiChiri10

5 ай бұрын

romania public broadcast is worse

@max__pain

5 ай бұрын

Ireland is the same. We have to pay the licence for their crap content, but the state channels still show ads.

@CristiChiri10

5 ай бұрын

@@max__pain the state channels in romania also show ads

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

The Beeb, Channel 4 and S4C are very very good in making documentaries instead of heavily acquiring foreign content even in the 50s.

About the Irish guy you saw complaining - thats probably over the corruption at RTÉ (the public broadcaster) that came out over the summer, to just mention 2 things: 1: 5000€ spent on flip-flops (that made international headlines) 2: Ryan Tubridy (radio host who also hosted Ireland's main late-night show until a few weeks before the corruption came out) was being paid more than the RTÉ was saying they were paying him, RTÉ's reason behind it was that they thought Tubridy was such a big ticket item they needed to keep, (he still had a radio job at this time) Then when Tubridy was fired over a press statement he made during the scandal, he then got a job with Virgin Radio in the UK and GUESS WHAT - took a paycut! 🤦

In South Africa you can’t buy a tv without a valid tv license. But like 82% of people don’t pay their fees. Also they want to make it that you need a tv license to buy laptops and smartphones as people use them for Netflix and Showmax

@Ralzone

5 ай бұрын

that sucks.

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

I guess 82 percent of people don't want power shedding too.

@ToyStory1995

2 ай бұрын

@@RalzoneSouth Africa sucks

un-ironically, these videos are always SO good and original. the way your brain works and the way you percieve things is so good and entertaining always. you're a legend :) also... is this video pre-recorded or have you been to Haiti and not talked about it... you were talking a lot about it before and now, nothing lol

The landlord of my favourite pub got investigated for not having a TV license, but having a TV. It’s for the CCTV feed.

France did away with the TV licence in 2022. I live there and I don't need a licence to watch any TV. When the licence was abolished, there was no change in the rate of VAT.

Just to add about Ireland, RTE gets money from advertisements on top of the TV license fee.

In my country (Australia), we got rid of TV and radio licences long before I was born in the early 90s. Nowadays, the only tv fees that you pay are for tv itself (and relevant equipment), subscription services (Foxtel, Fetch TV, Disney+ Netflix, etc.) and the utility bills (electricity / internet).

@ziran80

5 ай бұрын

The public broadcaster in Australia (ABC) gets it's money from the Federal Government, so we still pay for it through our income taxes.

@nathanjohnwade2289

5 ай бұрын

My point was that there's no dedicated tax, levy, etc.

About the dog license: I'm not Irish so I don't know if theirs works the same way but Wallonia has a pet license that's completely free and normally given out whenever asked for, but will be revoked in case of animal abuse.

What the government tells you they're spending your license revenue on: broadcasting What they're actually spending it on: kebabs

@ibx2cat

5 ай бұрын

pay your toycat license today!

I live in NZ and this is my first time hearing about TV licenses I can't even fathom paying for a TV license sounds crazy to me....

@LuxRoyale

5 ай бұрын

Same in the states, but many of us are aware of TV licenses in Britain since it's a big part of our online banter with Brits

@ryanbutler4221

5 ай бұрын

Another reason to move to New Zealand

@michinwaygook3684

5 ай бұрын

Canada has no TV license either. We also regard this as crazy.

Iceland has a TV License in a sense. Everybody over the age of 16 that has a certain amount of wages pays a yearly fee for "TV and radio", specifically the one national TV channel and one national radio station. The official reason is to "keep national public service up and running to keep citizens informed"

@KarlKarpfen

5 ай бұрын

That's practically the German model and official reason, too.

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

Well, that national TV channel is the most watched too in terms of Scandinavian shows, news, annual quiz show event for Senior High, even basketball cup and handball, and that Eurovision national qualifiers and the final. Glad they also offer English language commentaries or subtitles as well.

When I lived in Scotland I knew a woman who was a member of a certain evangelical church that didn't do TV. She still used to buy a licence just to avoid the constant harassment you get if you don't have a licence. I also went for a few years with no TV so I also experienced the threatening letters, visits etc. Here in Croatia there is a licence but it seems you don't go somewhere to buy one, you wait for someone to come to your home and sell you a licence!

If this channel's income blows up out of nowhere, I do hope you spend an unreasonable amount of it on kebabs

Norway doesn't have the 3000 nok licence anymore. It's just the tax now.

@ibx2cat

5 ай бұрын

Are you sure? It sounded like it was both from the Norwegian release I read

All jokes aside I always thought the TV license in the UK was their equivalent of the bicycle license plate or required registration of your dog. They'll all technically get you a fine or jail, but in reality are rarely enforced except when they couldn't prosecute you for something else, but still wanted you in trouble.

@Mmjk_12

5 ай бұрын

I think it is like that, the people that they send around have no actual power and the police don't give a shit as they have more important things to do and wouldn't even entertain sending officers to the house.

Not only does subscribing to toycat save you from house fires, it also save you from getting assassinated by Mi5 for not paying your TV licence

3:52 its not really to do with having to have a TV licence to watch privately owned channels, though that is true, the reason we’re blue on the map is because channel 4 is state owned ans has adverts and perhaps S4C, the Welsh state owned channel, also has ads though I don’t know.

Hello from Switzerland, in our case the license fees apply to radio and TV, regardless of which channels you consume and in what way (as far as I know, this is new for everyone). On the one hand, this finances the state broadcasters, but licensed (private) regional broadcasters also receive part of it, provided they meet certain requirements (the requirements primarily include information about the region, culture, language). As far as I know, only people who receive an old-age or disability pension are exempt from this. However, our broadcasting laws also restrict advertising, certain products/services may not be advertised at all and the duration/number of advertising blocks is also limited, which of course results in a limited opportunity for advertising revenue.

You can argue against a public broadcast service, which I belive is important, but if you support it financing is required and if you want to keep this service independent finincing should be independent as well. That's the reason TV licence exist. The idea is to create an independent and direct finance system that does not depend of the will of politicians or big advertising companies. The licence is clear , collected through a seperate system from regular taxes and goes directly to the broadcaster. As for the method, I belive that the licemce per tv set was the waynit worked innthe UK and fromthere got to Ireland and even to where I'm originaly from as it was based on the UK system. I believe it was changed with the new law in 2003.

In Italy, they will assume that you own a TV if you pay for electricity, and they will charge you on the electricity bill. Still, it is sufficient to tell the Revenue Agency that you do not own a TV to not pay for the TV licence. Luckily, this can be done easily from the Revenue Agency's website, so it's not so bad. That's what I've been doing every year (you have to tell them every year).

You don’t pay the government a tv license you pay a private company tv licensing is privately owned

I think in Romania this tax was included in electricity bills, but not anymore since 2017, as far as I know

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

No wonder why last year's Eurovision entrant did pished at TVR for changing his creative idea.

the ireland tv licence is ludicrous. in romania you get tv as a subscription. you pay a subscription fee to the provider to have access to the content (i am not sure if you were able to still watch tv after you end your contract but now tv over fiber is rising in adoption even in some rural areas with some ISPs)

The rest of the world thanks you for your service! Dr. Who, HIGNFY, Monty Python, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, and so much more.

The public broadcaster in Ireland is indeed RTE. Radio Telefis Eireann. It's Ireland. It has to be named in Irish. There actually is an accent over the "E."

I much prefer to pay to have tv channels which do not show advertisements ...otherwise it is viewers time that is being sold and without their permission. It also finds a rather fantastic news service with reporters all aroumd the world.

@Phiyedough

5 ай бұрын

I found with BBC TV they still had adverts but for their own products like future series or serials.

In Italy, the “canone Rai” works a lot like the Ireland licence. But Rai, the state broadcast, also has ads. To ensure less evasion we pay through the electricity bill

@emanueldobos8452

5 ай бұрын

Funny that, Greece also does the same scheme to reduce avoidance. Only problem is it incentivises stealing electricity even more 😂😭

In Romania, I don't think it is a tv licence anymore, it was, but i searched the net and it was repealed in 2018.

In Italy you have the licence fee included in the electricity bill. It's not that much though and it's not enough to fund national television (Rai) which relies way more on advertising. The original productions can be high quality sometimes tho. The main competitor is Mediaset with its lots of channels, (owned by the late Berlusconi which means that when he ran the government he had basically all of television in his hands), and they run a LOT of ads as well, and they operate in Spain as well for some reason being one of the main TV companies there too. Our television is completely filled to the brim with annoying ads. Young people don't even watch it anymore except for some trash shows that people make reaction content on. It's basically old people entertainment now, or dinner table background noise, or both.

A dog licence makes sense, if you need one to buy a dog, and you lose the licence if you're found to have abused to neglected any animal in the past.

You can tell the tv licensing people online that you don’t require a tv license as you don’t watch tv, they will then not bother you again

If we had that. I would demand our tv wasnt terrible on almost every channel

@256shadesofgrey

5 ай бұрын

And it wouldn't work, because they would then gaslight you and claim that it's "high quality", and you're just too stupid to understand how great it actually is. That's what happens in Germany.

New Zealand has no licence, but has a state broadcaster funded from the general tax pool. We do have a “dog tax” tho… you do need to pay to register your dog yearly which is meant to go toward paying for animal control and SPCA. But of course, those dogs most likely to cause harm tend to be owned by owners that do no register them.

I swear this guy is bouncing around so much in the chair I get distracted by what he is saying all the time XD

In Denmark it we don't have TV licenses anymore its paid over Taxes now because the people hired at the license Collection office started intimidating people that were on the Half Fee due to age or disability to pay the full fee amount instead (Some of these were mentally handicapped) and some employees had threatened violence on People that refused to pay

This is your second channel? Whats your first channel?

As long as your not watching BBC, Live TV of any kind, or any of the Channels OTT services, you dont need a licence... Although my household does have one, I myself very rarely watch tv these days, I mainly watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Paramount+ and Diacovery+... If I ever decide to get my own place, the only thing I would use a TV for would be for my XBox and Amazon Firestick

That dog license is the most insane.

@diegoyuiop

5 ай бұрын

Depends on what it concretely means

@Fig.220S

5 ай бұрын

Makes perfect sense. Why shouldn't dog owners pay for the privilege? No one needs a dog.

@LuxRoyale

5 ай бұрын

@@Fig.220S You're either a big dog hater or a major statist. Not sure which is worse.

Reason for licence is public broadcast independence (In theory). If funding is independent from goverment funding public broadcast should be inedependent. If it works is another story.

In Norway we got rid of the tv license years ago and now NRK is funded by tx

Now, this is content.

It was fairly controversial with us here in Sweden because they moved from licences on TV to basically anything with a screen for a while. Because it's all available digitally for anyone with a Swedish IP. It's obviously a nightmare to enforce. Then they made it a straight tax. Which is just odd frankly. It should probably just be baked into a budget like everything else. The only argument I can see for not baking it in is to make changes to the public broadcasting funding an issue decoupled from ordinary goverment budgets which potentially protects it from arbitrary slashes. Politicians would have to be explicit and clear about it at times they may find inconvenient. I personally think it's extremely important to appreciate public broadcasters in this day and age. The neutrality is just so vital and when you consider war/crisis readiness and other factors they're clearly the only reliable information channel that exists. And for anyone who says public broadcasters lean left/right (yes perceptions like this usually come from the extremes). Maybe reflect on all the information available and see if you're not just bias yourself. They absolutely have principles on certain areas like that. Notably SVT refuses to broadcast racist messaging and incitement to violence against ethnic groups. Which has caused some conflicts with some polticial parties because they're quite sensitive to that.

@stefanblohm5217

5 ай бұрын

Actually they had to remove phones, computers etc because the law say that the device must specifically be made for reciving tv broadcasts to be able to collect licence money. Radiotjänst had to pay back over 1.5 million SEK in wrongfully collected licences so they just added it on the tax instead.

The Danish system is... complicated - It's paid through income-taxes since 2022 and families with very low income has since 2022 gotten a small tax-return equal to 900 DKK (~€125). But it's basically just paid through taxes, and figuring out exactly how much of your taxes is for "public service" (TV, radio, newspapers etc.) is pretty much

@tyrionlannister6459

5 ай бұрын

That’s the best way to do it then everyone pays and there’s no cheating

I hated the previous Norwegian TV license model, but I am fine with the current tax. NRK is a very important part of Norway, and I view it more of an official culture tax now, rather than a "pay because you have a TV" fee. The way to get around the old model was to sign a TV in someone else's name (f.ex a parent).

@MrGunnar69

5 ай бұрын

Is it NRK that has told you that NRK is very important for Norway, or perhaps the tax-funded democratic school?

@Diventurer

5 ай бұрын

​@@MrGunnar69 Is this supposed to be an argument?

@MrGunnar69

5 ай бұрын

@@Diventurer No, that's a question. Don't you understand what a question mark means?

what is TV? is it related to the boom box or the gramophone

In Portugal (light green) you don't pay a TV license but everyone who have electricity on their home pay the audiovisual tax in the electricity bill. Much cheaper than on the UK though (about 40€/year).

@clawud

5 ай бұрын

Also this tax pays for the public radio (Antena 1, 2 & 3) and television (RTP) channels.

in czechia there's also similarly stupid tax if you want to buy storage, cause you can apparently save copyrighted works on it without paying obviously

Sweden got rid of the TV-license years ago, public service is funded by taxes since 2018. Im guessing your graphic is outdated?

As an elder Millennial I want to ask a Zoom question: I remember hearing about them when I was a kid, but what's a TV?

Portugal has a surcharge for broadcast included on the electricity bill

the UK used to be written like Ireland's where if you could watch on your gear then you must pay,,, well i think it was anyway

@michaelwisniewski6047

5 ай бұрын

It was definitely like that 20 yrs ago. And they would levy fines of £1000 if you tried to evade that.

The German religion tax ("Kirchensteuer") is named church tax for a reason: It applies exclusively to the roman-catholic and evangelic-protestant church. They get 10% of your income.

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

"Evangelic-Protestant" is Lutheran Church as we called.

So glad we dont have that in Spain, I would be seriously infuriated if I had to pay for the telescreen tier state tv here

Why would you crop the image just to leave out the legend colors? No way to follow what you're talking about.

KZread has ads?

Just started the video, the same is in Croatia, however I think it is not a bad thing, but it is applied in a very wrong way. In short, there should be a single radio station, single TV station (and maybe one website) for news, government announcements, etc. and there are no commercials or sponsorships, just basic programing that can be really funded by those license or subscriptions, however you want to call it.

@rogink

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like the sort of thing Putin does in Russia. Bad enough having to pay for stuff you don't watch, even worse if it's for the government to put out propaganda. Much better if it's like the BBC - they get the money from licences, but decide where it goes.

Does this create a market in Ireland for really big computer monitors?

@ascra1693

5 ай бұрын

No. People just don't pay here

Maybe, just maybe you shouldn’t be so preoccupied when talking about TV licenses. There are more than enough good reasons for some form of TV licensing and as a negative example you can just look at the US. Honestly if you’ve ever watched a single minute of US television you can be glad that we have somewhat more neutral and possibly even completely neutral TV stations in Europe that don’t need clickbaity content and that don’t cater to the interest of big multinationals just to appeal to advertisers. I will happily pay my (rather high) share for German public broadcast (18.36€/month/household) to get at least some form of less biased news content. Also, in Germany the TV license includes loads of web content including excellent social media news and entertainment channels.

In Belgium we have these public broadcasts, vrt on flemish side and rtbf on the walloon side. They are funded by the government and are required to be neutral and give everyone a voice. They are probably the most trustworthy forms of news in Belgium. Its just included in taxes, you don’t need a tv license to watch television. But outside of watching them on television, they organise these events all over the country which are often free. So I am actually a big fan of these programs. Edit: I looked up how much of our taxes go to it. It comes down to 43 euros per person, so not that much.

@nothandmade9686

5 ай бұрын

You are luckily. In the UK it is much more expensive and the most politically biaast pair of channel on live TV.

@Dickie5330

5 ай бұрын

@@nothandmade9686 It would be cheaper if you were similarly taxed like Belgium.

@justusb.3985

5 ай бұрын

@@Dickie5330 Not true for Germany, similarly high taxes as in Belgium but a 200€ extra fee for public broadcasting a year.

Dog license/tax is a also thing in Germany.

In Norway there is no Television license wtf??

I think the Norwegian model is way better than it used to be. But off course, the rates are a different discussion. Every taxpayer pay depending on income, from NOK 200-1700 (GBP 15-128, EUR 18-149) Most two-income families pay a little more than before. Low income families can possibly pay less Single income household pay a lot less They switched to the new model, to make simple rules, and avoid free riders. And discontinued the agency to catch free riders. Before internet and streaming, the rules were quite comprehensive, not complicated to understand, but it was fairly easy to get away After the introduction of streaming services, they considered how to include that, but that would be even more comprehensive, and difficult to enforce. Then they switch to the new model, where it is a defined amount on your taxes, depending on your income.

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

It's weird that Norway had to pay four times for the license: the NRK one, the TV2 one, the Viasat one and the Discovery TV Norge one.

Live in me shack. Watch me telly. Won’t pay the tax. Simple as.

Norway.. no longer has this.. not after it meant owning a phone required a lidende fee.. . I faugt for that 😅😮

The Irish rules make sense, tbh. Its next to impossible to enforce the British rule and even the letters they send get the actual law confused- my last letter literally said "you must pay if you enjoy BBC content" but I enjoy it AFTER they sell rights to Netflix, so by law I'm not required to pay the TV licence fee

@Charlizzie

5 ай бұрын

What I don't understand is how the folks in Northern Ireland receives RTE and TG4 without paying anything for them.

Ah that explains why the BBC website told me “No! You cannot watch *this* because it’s live now even if you can watch or read whatever else you want.” Because I’m not up to date on my UK taxes (I mean license fees) in Texas.

I'm in Ireland and haven't paid mine in years since I've moved house. They keep threating me with non payment letters but just ignore them. No way I'd give RTE my money as it's complete thrash.

I'm in Germany and I'm not really bothered, despite not watching TV. It's basically a tax which was excluded from the government after an *incidence* which showed that govt. media control might not be so great. And in Comparison with the rest of taxes it's not actually that high and there are worse and more expensive things done with my taxes.

you dont need a licence anymore in Iceland, but just because they just made it part of the taxes you pay every year, so every single person that are 16-69 years old pay about 140 euros a year for the national radio/tv, no matter if you own a tv or not. Also, you need a dog licence in Iceland too..

In my state in the US, you can pay $59 annually to have a license to hunt and kill deer with a gun, so this is wild that it costs over twice that to own a TV

Pin for un-brexit

In Greece, a tax for the national tv comes with the electricity bill so we can't avoid it. Even people who don't even have television are funding it.

@diegoyuiop

5 ай бұрын

That's what they did in Italy because a lot of people where avoiding it before

i'm grateful to live in indonesia. tv licence/fee in my country has been abolished like 24 years ago.

There are no TV licenses where I live apart from taxes going to our national broadcaster..... But I haven't watched TV for years anyway. 😅

Shows a map with a colour key Doesn’t show the colours 👌

Poland don't have tv licence, you have tax for having a tv or radio (each receiver is taxed, for example if you got 2 tv and 1 radio you have to pay for 3 devices), but better show me someone who paying this.

In the Philippines we don't have TV license. Thank the gods coz we have a TV at home but we rarely use it. 😅

I'm not sure if Denmark is up to date on that map... Just a few years ago the licence was turned into a "media tax". Before that you could avoid the licence if you had no tv or radio tuner, and internet slower than 256 kbps... then they realised that basically everyone has that speed of internet just by owning a phone above 2G... so now it's just a tax instead, more fair to the low income households, and saves a lot of money in administration. It's still separate on the tax bill, but since it IS a tax, would it be considered a government grant?

In Denmark there is no TV licensing, its all paid by danish Government

@diegoyuiop

5 ай бұрын

So what's the difference, in practice? Still payed by the tax payera

That map is well out of date, mate. Check your sources. Denmark has not had a TV Licence for two years now.

Dog licenses are a thing in Maryland.