This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Save the over 75 free TV licence. Tax the TV corporations, streaming and non
To tax all tv companies I.e, sky, virgin media, amazon video and any like this, to cover the hole that the BBC cannot fill or the government cannot seem to find the money for, the over 75 bill,
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By taxing the other tv corporations the ground for the tv industry will be a fare playing field and bringing back progams like the F1 to main stream TV and programmings that the BBC has lost,
Then this will hold the key to free tv for the over 75s
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
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We understand that you'd like a changes to the way that the BBC is funded. However, TV companies are already required to pay tax, so we aren't sure exactly what changes you'd like made to the funding model.
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