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mwooldri

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12. The BBC is funded by the British public.

Reply to marble falls (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 04:12 PM

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Via the TV licence. The BBC gets $5 billion a year to fund what it does. That income is tax free. The BBC does make $3 billion a year from its commercial activities.

If licence fee money is used to pay off Trump, there wouldn't be a tax write off to be had as it's tax free money to begin with.

Since the programme involved (Newsnight) is a UK show, for UK consumption, licence fee money would be 100% involved here.

There is no tax write off to be had.

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