Ross's contract, says Gambaccini, was also "probably the greatest factor of several factors" in the BBC's below-inflation-rate licence fee settlement.
The culture secretary said such a system could help tackle the issue of non-payment, which is currently a criminal officence, as well as introducing a progressive element absent from the flat-rate licence fee.
The words "means testing" were never uttered, though again Whittingdale has made no secret of his own view that a flat-rate licence fee is "regressive" as everyone from poorest to richest pays it.
The smaller the slice of time that Britons spend watching the BBC, the harder it becomes to justify the flat-rate licence fee (in all but name, a regressive tax) levied on all the country's television owners to pay for the corporation.In this section Collapse in Russia Digital follies Punish and be damned Muzzled in Malaysia Salesman Schröder As bad as it gets?
But in corruption-afflicted India wild tales of bribes being paid to political parties abound: $75m is the asking rate for a licence, gossips the chief executive of a financial firm.
Women's low level of car access correlates with a low rate of driving licence holdership, among other factors.
Among other taxes, corporation tax, national insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, council tax, business rates, the television licence fee, the apprenticeship levy, stamp duties, alcohol duties, tobacco duties, vehicle excise duty and air passenger duty should be abolished".
In Uzbekistan the going rate for an import licence is 10% of the value of the goods.Every part of the public sector is included in the game.
Opponents say that based on just a four per cent extraction rate the current government licence blocks granted to IGas could eventually see it operate nearly 8,000 wells in the region – half of them engaged in fracking.
Samsung had claimed the royalty rates Ericsson was asking for the same patents it had previously licensed were "excessive" — describing them as being "significantly higher" than the previous royalty rate under the prior licence.
He adopted an IMF-style "structural adjustment" programme which involved setting the exchange rate free, abolishing import licences, slashing tariffs and removing most price controls.
