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Annual licences are granted by the information affairs authority (IAA) and their renewal can be arbitrary.
In March Lambeth contacted those running classes on Clapham Common to introduce fees of up to £39,900 for annual licences (existing operators were offered a 75% discount).
Cars brought in from other countries are hammered with a 200%-plus import tax, motorised vehicles require the purchase of annual licences, and the price of fuel has been rising fast, with recent increases met with public strikes and violence.
Revenue from liquor, and from the annual licences bars need to sell it, are a major source of revenue for the state, which has a love-hate relationship with prohibition.
One of the provisions in the proposed law requires newspapers to apply for annual licences to operate from the Media Council, whose chairman will be appointed by the minister for information.
Mr Goldkorn explains that the relationship between editorial staff and propaganda officials is an important one because newspapers must stay in the good graces of the censors so that their annual licences can be renewed.
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Ofcom signalled in 2010 that annual licence fees would rise, at the request of ministers.
Since 2005, Westminster City Council has charged sex shop owners in the West End of London £29,102 for their annual licence.
For more recent spectrum awards, the government has held auctions and demanded upfront payments instead of annual licence fees.
Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, found Arise in breach of its licence for failing to pay its annual licence fee by the required date.
Annual licence fees will be ramped to £309m a year, up from the current annual total of £64.4m, under proposals published on Thursday by the telecoms regulator Ofcom.
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