Re: TV Licence why ...but we had them
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:37 pm
Dave Moll wrote:gary wrote:...the "meme" used to promote the change was "8 cents a day" designed to give tax payers the idea that it wasn't costing them much, of course some paid much more than that, and some not at all.
Roughly what would that equate to at today at today's prices?
For comparison, given that the UK licence is around £150 a year (my renewal last year was at £147), I reckon that works out at a little under £5 a week, or £0.70 a day. If £1 is still very roughly A$2, that would be about $1.40 per household, regardless of how many taxpayers live together.
roughly 19 cents a day, but the trick was that 8c a day was for every man woman and child in the country. In fact if you calculate it now it would be only 11.6c a day as our population has increased significantly over the 30 odd years.
So if you convert that into the average sized household, that's 1.61 x 2.6 ~= 30c
However it is estimated that 46% of Australian households pay NO net tax, so that becomes 56c
That's for the ABC alone, wow if I add SBS (Special Broadcasting Services) that rises by 26% to 71c
1 pound = AU$1.78 so 0.7 pound ~= AU$1.25
That would then have to be further derated by the number of channels/'stations provided by the different services.