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BEEB FEE AXE FOR NEW TAX
Daily Star
|January 13, 2025
TV switch plan for licence
THE BBC could be funded by taxes instead of the licence fee.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is considering scrapping the annual charge at the end of the Beeb's current charter in 2027, according to sources.
A tax would finance it instead. A Whitehall source said: "Lisa does not believe that the licence fee is financially sustainable.
"But she believes that our national broadcaster should be owned by the nation.
This story is from the January 13, 2025 edition of Daily Star.
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