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Taxes are something that we may always count on, something that’s always going to be there. But in the UK they seem to be taking things a step further and placing taxes on numerous things that are rather ridiculous.

For instance, in the UK you have to pay a tax if you own a TV set. It doesn’t matter if you don’t watch the TV set, as long as you have one the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) says that you have to compensate taxes. Those that own a colour TV have to compensate 166 pounds a year and those that own a black and white TV set have to compensate 39 pounds a year ($64 in the US). The bad thing is that the tax goes up each year and humans that don’t remunerate the tax could be thrown in jail. The reason for the tax is that the BBC requires funding, and in order to secure that funding they feel that they have to tax any individual that uses their services.

Even people that don’t own a television still have to deal with the BBC, since the corporation seems to believe the the conception of somebody not owning a television is exclusively absurd. UK citizens that don’t own a television are suspected of being license-dodgers.

Another absurd tax is a tax for the dead…in a way. Inheritance tax is the tax paid on the estate of a domicile of the UK when they die. In most cases, domicile is gained through birth, parents or long-term residence. A person’s estate may include their car, home, investments, bank accounts, and even things that the deceased had given away for the duration of the last seven years before they died. Inheritance tax also applies to sure gifts made while the person was alive, paying cash to a queer trust for example.

The Air Passenger Duty has more than a few citizens of the United Kingdom looking for alternate modes of transportation. Basically anybody flying has to remunerate taxes. Flying in from another country like France or Ireland is cheaper, but citizens in the UK have to compensate twelve times as much as other European countries. The Air Passenger Duty likewise affects people that aren’t citizens of the UK, but merely flying through an airport in the UK. With the price of fuel rising it looks like it’s having little impact to walk, bike, or take the bus to get to wherever you need to go.

Taxes are a portion of life, but they shouldn’t be something that makes your life a nightmare. Citizens of the UK may only hope that they reform a heap of of the more ludicrous taxes and that they don’t increase the ones already in existence, either that or they may hope that they may find a heap of way of bypassing them…legally, of course.

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British Broadcasting was introductory published in 1956. Those fascinated in the uses and abuses of the airwaves ofttimes indulge in lively argues over the merits of British broadcasting policies and exercises as equated to their American counterparts. Most such arguments, however, are based on scanty noesis of actual facts when it comes to British broadcasting. Now this gap of selective information is remedied by the comprehensive survey which Dr. Paulu presents in this book. He traces the development of both radio an television broadcasting from their inception in Britain to the present and assays the results. Dr. Paulu did the basic exploration for this volume as a Fulbright scholar in London in 1953-54, when the new Independent Television Authority was being debated in Parliament and the British Broadcasting Corporation was laying it is plans to meet competition. While he often times compares British and American practices, the author believes that broadcasting ought to be studied in it is own national setting. He treats the subject, therefore, in the British context rather than the American. He describes the development of the BBC as a noncommercial public corporation with a monopoly of British broadcasting and reviews the constituents that led to the emergence of the commercially supported ITA. He places major special and significant stress on program descriptions but likewise discusses audience reactions, staff and technical facilities, and finances. The book offers worthful info for students and teachers in communications courses as well as for those engaged in radio or television on either side of the Atlantic.

About the AuthorBurton Paulu was manager of the University of Minnesota radio station, KUOM, which broadcasted instructional radio programs and also developed radio and television programs for broadcast over mercantile stations.

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