Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

She will NEVER testify.

Cabinet ministers have told the Irish Mail on Sunday that the Revenue Commissioners will be assigned the task of collecting the licence fee. Both funding of RTÉ entirely by the government and the household broadcasting charge have been ruled out for the rest of this government's term. There is speculation in political circles that the general election will take place next autumn.

Well Im not paying the Licence fee, mine was out since August 2023, have had 3 reminder letters in the post, latest was on Friday just gone, none mentioning court yet.

Im going to wait and see what comes next, they cant bring everyone to court as non payments have soared since the Tubs payments scandal.

Once Revenue involved things get far more complicated. It wont be court initially but will be INTEREST added to amount owed and regardless, at some stage you will end up paying but then also the added interest which will be hefty. Depending on what you do - self employed, company owner etc it could lead to audits OR at minimum puts you in the crosshairs with revenue which most people dont want

I wonder if you dont pay will the withhold your tax clearance cert if your self employed. I suppose time will tell when the change over happens, it will probably be called the broadcasting licence by then.

Its primarily a FEAR thing. Revenue is feared by most. So the gov have resorted to fear as the only solution for collection of TV Licence or whatever it will be called.

Yes @capefear .. I reckon so - "I wonder if you dont pay will the withhold your tax clearance cert if your self employed."

Self employed people will not be able to separate the RTE Bailout Tax out of their return and not pay it

they either pay the lot or don’t pay which will lead to the sheriff at the door

as I say again the anger will deepen greatly if the government do this

Yes @Arthur Daley .. but a TV License Tax was always essentially an ongoing annual tax on your purchased TV that happened to be paid to RTE who were the only thing on it at one stage. Now the gov are scrambling around as most other govs are to find another tax to replace the TV Tax with.

The gov are facing the same thing where motoring is concerned .. if more andd more is gone electric or hybrid which pay low motor tax, what will they replace it with

Could one pursue a small claims court action for the return of the licence fee?

Fine, there is a legal obligation to pay it, I have done my civic duty and paid it.

But given their failure to provide PSB and "teleshopping" is not PSB, can we not take a small claims court action for the return of the money by way of failure to provide a service.

They have closed DAB, Aertel, now reducing digital radio stations on the saorview service.

To add insult to injury they blast out over the BBC frequencies to block them, but what they block them with is scandalous so we can't even get overspill anymore.

I wouldn't mind if I watched 1 / 2 hours of RTE a week, but the fact is, I don't watch even a half hour.

There is honestly nothing on these two channels that I would watch.

Thane direct Teleshopping, kelly clarkson Dr Phill, Shortland Street, Doctors, home and away, neighbours, fair city, today, that is the menu. There is nothing Irish there, no value whatsoever, if it was a restaurant, I would walk.

We should be able to counter their court prosecutions with small claims actions for failure to provide service.

Who is watching this pure crap????

I would have thought buying sandals with money meant for the State Broadcaster is misappropriation of funds at very least - where are the Gardai???

Fine, but how do we derive value for money and accountability into the future?

They have effectively gotten away with what they have done at this point.

The Governments reaction is not how dare you rte, its how dare you not pay!

They've been doing that for over 20 years.

Apparently, she is 56.

Regards...jmcc

Well Im not self employed so I dont need a C2 Tax clearance certificate, Im PAYE sector.

Im going to to wait it out. Im up to date on Property Tax etc.

I know lots of people who are not paying it either, as I said before they cannot take everyone to court.

They just couldn't resist giving the gig to Gaybo.. Wrong man entirely for that show

I am being facetious

If you look at the video its like looking at the who's who of Oireachtas Committee meetings in 2023!

"They should have fixed it so that they could be come millionaires" ... in other words exactly what they did.