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Responding to the publication of the BBC’s latest annual report and accounts 2023-24, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
“Licence fee payers will be livid at the excess and extravagance of the top level pay packets at the Beeb
“BBC bosses love to bang the drum for the quality and quantity of the broadcaster’s output, yet are clearly terrified to put it to the test of the free market, instead relying on a punitive and pernicious TV tax to raise revenue.
“The next licence fee review should recognise that this model of funding is decades out of date and needs to be replaced with a subscription service.”
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Founded in 2004 by Matthew Elliott and Andrew Allum, the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) campaigns to reform taxes and public services, cut waste and speak up for British taxpayers. Find out more at www.taxpayersalliance.com.
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