RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

There's been talk about "reforming" the licence fee for some time.

I'm not personally happy with the direction it seems to going. The reform I would like to see is more direct accountability to the public, not less. But less accountability is the direction in which things are going unfortunately.

RTE, in my opinion, are much more scared of people walking away from them and taking their money, than politicians over whom they have a certain hold. So a mandatory fee suits them much better.

A bit too late for some of the current board but great news for RTE, Tubs and the like in the long term.

The Tubridy Indo article today smacked of NKM written propaganda like the hilarious headline article from the Sun last Saturday

@ZookeeperDub

In the event that he does return, the public wouldn't turn him off. The general public don't really care about the issue to the point that they'd be reaching for the dial as soon as they heard his voice. If anything, his first couple of shows back would get a bump in listenership because people would be tuning in to see if was going to address the furore.

Anytime I hear him now (and it's always on Clare Byrne's show as 'Ireland's only 'expert' on music who just happens to be represented by NK') he's basically an overpaid pub bore. He'll be brought on to regale us with his knowledge of whatever random artist they pick and all he seems to ever do is list off albums and singles, presumably (in his mind) to impress people with what he knows.

The person or company that provides an invoice doesn’t pay VAT on it.

At least get your terminology right.

The tv license was created at a time all visual broadcasting was watched on a B/W TV and delivered by RTE in one/two channel land, it's a bloody dinosaur and no longer relevant today. Think road versus motor tax. Time to move on. The idea that 30%+ of households are serial evaders brings it into disrepute and the Govt have been seriously lapse in not addressing this problem. In fairness though, I'm assuming the people who have not paid it / threaten not to pay it in the future because they consider RTE morally repugnant are fastidious in their compliance with all other tax law.

So Tubridy's earnings were understated by 225,000 as the other 120,000 is resting in some other account.

So NK won't have KBs phone num?.........just like the previous set up so!

He doesnt even know where RTE is or what it does. He never leaves his office. He doesnt know what an invoice is. It is just a voice at the end of a telephone line telling him what orders to execute.

A factor would be the date on the invoices. If these are pre Brexit, then for VAT purposes they'd have been treated as Intra EU sales/ purchases and 0% VAT would apply. Post Brexit, VAT would apply.

So what you are saying is that you are clueless about VAT rules. Why are you commenting so much on story you don't know anything about? You are obviously not aware that Grant Thorton cleared Tubridy of any wrong doing illegal.

On the moral end of things I don't understand why anyone took RT seriously when he was on about everyone being in it together about Covid and salary cuts etc. It should not be news to anyone he is on a big salary. It also shouldn't be news that it would be hard for him to earn as much anywhere else in Ireland. RTE have basically admitted as much as they reduced RTs salary over the last decade in both absolute and real terms. RTE overpaying presenters isn't a new complaint.

Hopefully be like water charges not paying it