Yet another tax
Here we go again.
Now that they have discovered the joys of taxing us at source, they are imposing yet another home tax.
They call it a “Public Service Broadcasting Charge” and every home in the country has to cough up. Or else.
“Nobody will be able to refuse to pay the charge because it will apply regardless of whether you have a television, computer or any other device that can pick up public information.”
Pat “The Weasel” Rabbitte justifies this tax on the assumption that “he simply did not believe there were any households who could claim to have no access to public service broadcasting whether via television, radio or the RTE website on phones and computers.” Fuck me but that’s a leap of logic?
I do have radios. I seem to have collected them over the years. I do have a television and in theory I could watch television on my laptop. As it happens, I rarely if ever watch or listen to Irish stations – they are generally all crap. And I can guarantee that there are homes that don’t have radios or television in the country, so it is pretty high handed an excuse to assume there aren’t. And even if I didn’t have any radios, televisions or computers The Weasel still taxes me because my mobile phone is capable of receiving radio, even though I have never used the feature.
Of course this opens yet another nice little can of worms.
Is every home in the country to be levied a “road tax” on the assumption that we all have cars and can access roads? A Universal Street Light Tax? A National Golf Club Tax [we all presumably have access to a golf club near us somewhere?].
The way things are going we might as well just sign of all our incomes and assets over to the gubmint and they can pay us pocket money every week.
Instead of increasing taxes all the time, why can’t the cunts just stop spending it on themselves and giving it away to the fucking European banks?
More taxes. Dear god, I'll have to stay out here forever at this rate!!!
They're hardly even bothering with the excuses any more. They know they can rob us blind and there is nothing we can do. How much is a one way fare to Tunisia these days?
with or without tax?
Jayzus! Don't rub it in….
I wonder where you found that ;-), good article as always pal.
Heh! Many apologies. Forgot to tip the cap in your direction.
Air tax is on its way. We'll all have to disappear and become trogolyites deep down below the earthly radar.
This Levy tax will apply whether you own a TV or not. They are basing it on the household database they built by threatening us if we didn't pay to get our name and address onto it so that we could taxed everywhere else. The media and water taxes are imminent examples of this. That was a bad enough con.
But, this is our Irish way of taxing the internet. When you buy your digital device, PC or something else, you pay VAT on it, and you pay VAT too to your service provider on your monthly bill. They now want to tax you for paying the VAT bill on top of it.
I am still trying to figure a way around this and all I have been able to come with so far is getting myself into the black economy so that I can afford to have the internet in the first place.
Looks like they are trying to simplify the tax system into two easy steps.
1. How much money do you make?
2. Give it to us.
I'm not surprised that Irish people can be openly raped on the flimsiest of pretexts. My own grandda and father told me about that one shortly before I fucked off somewhere else for good- not being stupid, like. I may just join in and start sending the Irish Government suggestions for new taxes to apply to the plantation slaves. Just for my own amusement, you understand. For example there could be a Public Dissent Tax. In which case you would now owe the Dept of Bumming The Irish Repeatedly a further 1500 euros. I'd like to ask a question at this point. How many people labouring under the 'Make Them Pay For Our Inability To Count' policy are actually under the impression that some fine sunny day the government will suddenly announce; 'Well done dall, we've paid off all our debts and all those extra taxes will now be repealed'?
I bet it hasn't even occurred to the majority of hapless c*nts of the Irish Tax Herd that even if the mountain of debt disappeared the taxes won't. Let me clue you in as you are one of the least offensively stupid Irish people I have had the pleasure of never being introduced to publicly- 'Income Tax' was invented to pay for the war against Napoleon. Napoleon is long dead. But 'Income Tax' remains. Think about it. I'd say there is a deal more financial rape to be chanced yet before the Mammies of Ireland stop worrying about what the neighbours might think if you were involved in shooting Irish politicians dead and open the back door so there is room for some face-saving rebellion and firing squads. It is that bad. Irish men wll not rebel until the Mammies and Herselves give them permission to do so. And that won't be until what were middle class kids start getting rickets and going to bed hungry. Lots done. Lots more to do. That'll be five euro for the Public Wisdom Tax.