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And new figures published today show the voluntary approach, rather than compulsory charging, is the way to do it.
A particularly important message for the Welsh assembly government, which seems determined to plough on with its plans for compulsory charging, and also for the new Northern Ireland environment minister who has said he'll consider it.
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And, rather than having to extract its allowance from a reluctant Congress, it will get the money from a compulsory charge on the accounting industry.
John Whittingdale, who has been appointed as Culture Secretary, said in October that the compulsory charge to fund the BBC should be eventually ended.
The consumer group claimed that some ticket agencies may be breaking consumer protection laws by not displaying all their compulsory charges upfront.
It wants them and entertainment venues to end hidden fees by showing all compulsory charges upfront, and justify their charges by providing a clear explanation of what they are for and setting them at a "fair" level.
But the present government is never going to get its head around the simple proposition that funding Newsnight through a universal and regressive tax is unjust, and funding EastEnders by a compulsory charge is unnecessary.
Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has raised the possibility that the BBC could be funded by something other than a licence fee, describing the current £145.50 a year compulsory charge as a "means to an end, not an end in itself".
But the Commission acknowledged in a report that its campaign so far of enforced price caps on the cost of using mobile phones abroad - first introduced four years ago - had not had the long-term effect of opening up the market: operators simply apply the compulsory charge at the maximum allowed but have no incentive to cut prices further.
Baroness Hale, deputy president of the Supreme Court, suggested earlier this week that the Government and Parliament "may not fully understand how important access to justice is to the maintenance of the rule of law", citing the recent introduction of the £150 compulsory charge for criminal court defendants.
Out of 53 cathedrals which responded to a BBC survey, 11th Century Winchester in one of nine which imposes a compulsory charge rather than rely on voluntary donations.
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