[Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Taxing Internet services

[Christian de Larrinaga]

Whilst it is true that the licence fee has in recent years included
slightly more than just BBC production (outsourced or not) the general
point I made is I believe good that the BBC licence fee is not
equivalent to a content tax for the UK nor the levy on cassettes etc. 

How it is spent is reported on in some depth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/reports/ara

You are of course completely correct that the level of "outsourcing" of
production by the BBC has been very contentious and that the substantial
royalties and licensing of content from worldwide sales plays an
increasingly important role in the financial performance of the BBC
overall.  

Many UK Publishers have argued for many years that the BBC web and
information and education services being funded from the licence fee are
damaging the market for publishing in these sectors in the UK.


C

Zorro wrote:
> Not quite correct.
>
> Marketization etc under John Birt and previous Tory and Labour
> governments saw minimum requirements to contract out production. I'll
> have to check BBC reports as to what current proportion is
> commissioned from independents including ITV.
>
> Also the license fee had been 'hijacked' to fund government propaganda
> arm 'beacon to the world' BBC World Service; BBC Enterprises generates
> big turnover if not mega profits to fund mainstream programming. And
> also hijacked to subsidise 'free' licenses for the over 75s.
>
> And the license fee has recently been extended to covet non real time
> reception ie on yr PC laptop iPod iPad etch etc off the web.
>
> Regards
>
> Dominic 
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Nov 13, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Christian de Larrinaga
> <cdel at firsthand.net <mailto:cdel at firsthand.net>> wrote:
>
>> BBC licence fee is for BBC funding. Not a general way to fund content
>> for all sources.
>>
>> C
>>
>> On 13 November 2016 12:46:58 GMT+00:00, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com
>> <mailto:vgcerf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Cynthia Khoo <cyn.khoo at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:cyn.khoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         First, a couple points of clarification, to ensure everyone
>>         is on the same page--Mark mentioned above, but to reiterate: 
>>
>>         1) Neither new tax that the Canadian government is
>>         considering is a general sales tax like HST, GST, etc., which
>>         already applies to other domestic goods and services. The
>>         first "tax" ("ISP tax") would be a special levy on ISPs for
>>         the purpose of contributing to the Canadian content system,
>>         like broadcasting distributors currently have to; and the
>>         second "tax" ("Netflix tax") would be a mandated fee that
>>         online content providers would have to contribute to that
>>         same Canadian content system. 
>>
>>         --------
>>
>>     This reminds me of the television tax in the UK that pays for BBC
>>     content as I understand it?
>>
>>     v
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