Disappointed by IBA, again

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012, Steve G. wrote about "Re: Disappointed by IBA, again":
> > 1. We might not care about their bad TV, but THEY DO. Notice that I wanted
> > to listen to radio. So it is still a valid complaint, and one that the IBA,
> > as a customer facing institution, funded by tax money paid by everyone,
> > should want to address.
>
> Watch out for what you wish for - right now (or at least, last time I
> checked...) the IBA taxes every *car* yearly because they assume that people
> listen to radio in the car. Let's not give them bright ideas to tax
> every computer because people actually listen to radio on the computer :-)


Too late. You have to pay the annual TV levy even if you haven't got a
TV receiver - any device that is capable of showing a moving picture,
such as a DVD player + screen or a computer - qualifies.  This is from
personal experience, sadly.

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