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Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’

northernscrub@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I wasn’t referring to road tax, I was referring to income tax. just because I drive a car, I cannot (and should not) be able to reclaim the proportion of tax I pay that is put towards public transport infrastructure.

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Senal@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

then you’re funding a valuable public service to others, that provides not only the news, weather, and eastenders, but also a host of revision tooling for students of all ages, language services, a public information broadcast point in case of national disaster, and so on. It’s not just about you and what you do or do not wish to watch. If you drive a car, a portion of the tax you pay still goes towards public transport services.

Genuine question, which part of this is referring to income tax?

The only tax reference i’m seeing is the one that specifically prefaces it with “if you drive a car”.

Another genuine question, i’m not seeing how

just because I drive a car, I cannot (and should not) be able to reclaim the proportion of tax I pay that is put towards public transport infrastructure.

Relates to anything in my reply.

Not looking for a fight , it seems i’m legitimately missing something important here.

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