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News Burst: Government to raise TV rates

...24 for digital viewers. Angry commercial broadcasters dubbed the rise a digital poll tax. Turning his back on the recommendations of the Davies panel, culture... Read more

22 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

A Year Ago: Government panel recommends digital poll tax

...output, commercial channels and consumer groups criticised the increase as a "digital poll tax". The panel, headed by economist Gavyn Davies, proposes digital viewers be... Read more

8 August, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Government panel recommends digital poll tax

...output, commercial channels and consumer groups criticised the increase as a "digital poll tax". The panel, headed by economist Gavyn Davies, proposes digital viewers be... Read more

6 August, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Broadcasters question BBC's role in digital age

...extra £24 for digital viewers. Commercial broadcasters dubbed the rise a "digital poll tax". Turning his back on the recommendations of the Davies panel, Culture... Read more

22 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Is Microsoft reneging on its OOXML standards promise?

...that he'd encountered as an academic advising the police about the poll tax riots. He was scathing of the notion that Microsoft was hiding... Read more

5 April, 2010

BBC Wonga

...as bubonic plague. Moreover, the licence is grossly unfair - it's a poll tax, in effect - and doesn't really succeed in its stated aim... Read more

21 February, 2007

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...more on advertising. It's the equivalent of a city abandoning the poll tax and hoping the revenue from the billboards will cover council expenses... Read more

11 August, 2006

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...more on advertising. It's the equivalent of a city abandoning the poll tax and hoping the revenue from the billboards will cover council expenses... Read more

11 August, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Government creates ID card agency

...of the scheme. This is a self-destructive policy to dwarf the Poll Tax Read more

3 April, 2006 by Andy McCue

Row over £30bn cost of ID cards

...introducing ID cards. "This report confirms the cost of Labour's plastic poll tax will be billions of pounds above government estimates. It is unacceptable... Read more

4 November, 2005 by Andy McCue

Digital TV set to boom

...to digital TV. Monday the government decided against imposing a so-called "poll tax" to fund the BBC's digital services. Instead analog and digital... Read more

25 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Tories pledge to abolish ID cards

...Labour ministers are pressing ahead with their vast white elephant, their plastic poll tax, 20 Millennium Domes rolled into one giant catastrophe in the making... Read more

3 October, 2006 by Andy McCue

Leader: ID cards fight must go on

The bill might now be law but it's still a costly dog's dinner of a scheme Read more

31 March, 2006 by silicon.com staff

New ID cards agency set up after Queen approves bill

...of the scheme. This is a self-destructive policy to dwarf the Poll Tax." Plus: Read our leader on the ongoing silicon.com ID Cards... Read more

31 March, 2006 by Andy McCue

Government "in denial" about true ID card costs

...cards. He said: "This report confirms the cost of Labour's plastic poll tax will be billions of pounds above Government estimates. It is unacceptable... Read more

3 November, 2005 by Andy McCue

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