All they need to do is say they're going to simplify the tax law around tv licensing with just owning a tv being enough to need a license, back date it and lots of extra income to help with the Corona spend and later tax splurge
Easy
Garbage... Firstly, TV ownership would have to be established by... person? address? (Remember, no names and addresses have been collected against TV sales since 2013).
TVL: ”Hello Mr Braneflutter, this is TVL. Do you own a TV?
Mr Brainflutter: No.
What about every other device capable of receiving TV broadcasts? Do you tax them as well? If not, sales of jumbo monitors would rocket.
In the days when a TV receiver was the only means of viewing TV, it was easy to apply the licence tax to TV ownership. It was effectively what they actually did... until 2013 when there were more non-TV devices capable of receiving TV in peoples homes than TVs.
If it is going to be a general tax then it would have be applied equally to all tax payers - the vast majority of whom who’ll have already paid the existing annual tax for the privilege of watching live tv and will not be overly chuffed at being retrospectively taxed on something they have already paid an annual tax on.
The uprising by good honest TV licence buying citizens against an additional retrospective tax on TV would be something to behold... a lawyers wet dream.