Regarding Zoe Williams’s article (The TV licence fee scandal: why are 1,000 people a week being casually criminalised?, 29 February), I still pay my licence fee despite not watching any live TV. I watch videos of all sorts on YouTube and livestreams several times a week on Twitch, and listen to music, often from internet radio stations with subscriptions. I refuse to leave myself open to the risk of prosecution for nonpayment of a stealth tax that should either be rolled into ordinary taxation or made into an optional subscription. To prosecute someone for not paying £159 when those at the top are squirrelling away millions in offshore tax havens is the height of unfairness.
Paula Thomas
Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire
• In the 1950s, there was only one thing you could do with a television set, so there was a valid argument for everybody who possessed one paying for our only broadcaster via a licence. But it’s not the 1950s any more. Now we have many more sources of TV material, and not all of them from broadcasters. So it no longer makes sense for one broadcaster to be paid by everyone regardless of whether they watch its programmes. It’s not even clear what a “public service” broadcaster actually is any more, and I’m fairly sure the public have never been asked if they want one. Continue reading...
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