Some quick back of the napkin maths…
Currently 24.8m people pay for a tv license. For arguments sake I’m going to say nobody has a black and white tv. £159 per year. This is £3,943,200.
There are 31,581,000 tax payers. (I didn’t include the 713k on the ‘saver rate’) so if everyone pays the same, that means we all pay £124.86
Now that is a reduction, but is that fairer? A family of 5 will be paying over £600 a year for the BBC. Now you could argue that it’s currently not fair that a single person pays the same as that family. But nobody pays for Netflix or AppleTV on a per person basis. They don’t ask how many in your household and in fact, these are commonly shared amongst people.
I use the BBC, I like the BBC and in this scenario, I’m better off. But I don’t think it’s fair.
If you’re on a low income that £10 a month could be a lot of money to you. You might not have a TV currently because you can’t afford the tv license and now you’re being forced into it.
Personally I don’t think this will happen anyway. 2027 is a long way away and I’m reluctant to believe the spiel of a woman who employs her full time student daughter on a £40k a year job at the tax payers expense about what’s right and fair.