Satellite dish tax

You are passing by a shop which is offering a service for free and you go in and avail yourself of the offer. As you leave, the owner of the shop next door comes out and demands that you pay him for the service you have just been given gratis even...

You are passing by a shop which is offering a service for free and you go in and avail yourself of the offer.

As you leave, the owner of the shop next door comes out and demands that you pay him for the service you have just been given gratis even though he has nothing whatsoever to do with the first shop.

Absurd, you may say. But that is precisely the situation where the satellite dish tax is concerned.

The Wireless Telegraphy Department, to whom we pay the unjust tax, is offering no services yet they demand that we pay them while the countries which transmit the programmes expect nothing in return.

If European regulations prohibit such a tax, as we were often assured before we joined, what is holding the authorities from removing this illegal tax?

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