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Dumb that they'd even bother making it per household. If every house has to pay then just roll it into your regular taxes.
Don't know for Sweden but for Germany the reason that it is not an tax is, that the gouvernements get to decide what is done with the tax money and that would heavily limit the freedom of the public broadcasting channels.
That's why it is a fee collected by the channels themself.
that was indeed the rationale behind the tv license, until the tv watching population got so small that they could no longer sustain the channels. so then they made it a tax, completely dispelling any notion that there was ever a divide.
In Germany the fee is not dependent on actually watching TV (anymore).
hey guess what our compulsory tv tax paid for this year?
they sent a krona-billionaire politician meathead to romania to interview andrew tate on being a male role model