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A CHANGE IN the law is being proposed by the Department of Communications, aimed at improving the enforcement rate for the new Public Service Broadcasting Charge.
Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte confirmed last month that the new charge is set to come into effect in January 2015, and will replace the current TV licence fee.
Designed to deal with high evasion levels and to target the increasing numbers who don’t watch television but access content via other devices, it will apply to every household in the country.
The consultation document on the plan, now viewable on the Department’s website, seeks feedback from the public on 13 proposals regarding the new charge.
Much like the current system, it is being proposed that “the occupier as opposed to the owner of the house should be liable for the charge, given that the benefits of public service flow to those in the household as opposed to the person that owns the property”.
Later, the document states that:
Should the proposal that the occupier pays, as opposed to the owner, be retained, then enforcement in instances where the occupier does not pay would need to be addressed.New legislation could include a provision to oblige, under penalty, owners to provide the requisite details of their properties, including its occupiers, so that enforcement of the public service broadcasting charge can be optimised.
It is also suggested that databases of various state agencies could be used to access occupiers names, in addition to the existing TV licence database.
More detail on the charge and the full consultation document can be viewed at the Department of Communications website.
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My condolences to the Journal on failing to pick up any award.
Perhaps another article from the failed labour TD “Addon O Know-it-all” or a campaign to free another prisoner held abroad. Could be what’s needed for next year’s awards .
@Clever Jake: I’m seriously leaning towards the belief that there are a lot of anonymous Journal commentators that are the same few people.
@Tricia Golden: I agree, most likely even just one lonely sad individual, who feels the need to open several anonymous accounts to spread their bigotry and hatred
What I love is he gave reason for every single one of them being “nominated” yet they still say he is lying. One of them got suspended for it, others had to retract their statements.
I dont agree with everything Trump does but calling out the media for reporting hearsay is something I support.
@Shannon Mcg:
Do you support them exposing Trump’s lies too?
@Shannon Mcg: 1 Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways”
If Trump digs out his granny’s Bible, he could learn something from that verse.
@Walt Jabsco: of course, but only if it is accurate. Saying he said he had a good relationship with Kim Jong un when he said he could have isn’t accurate reporting.
@Shannon Mcg: says the person with the non-existent Facebook page. Riiiiiiggggghhhhhttttt.
@Shannon Mcg: do you mean with his alternative facts ? Like he’s never dishonest ? Lol
Trump 2020
@Censorship is modern day book burning: Your brain must have been in overdrive to come up with that one.
@Johnny Bellew: you have little understanding of what censorship means. Censorship would mean suppressing the information and source. What Trump has done is brought attention to the information and source.
@JimmyMc: I think you are referring to the name of the person I was replying to. Take another look.
@Johnny Bellew: I got you now Johnny. I do apologise
@Clever Jake: of course I could contest you, but I don’t think you’re worth it
@JimmyMc: what trump has done is lie at every turn
how come the journal doesnt report on this ?
Apple will pay US $ 38 billion (€ 31 billion) worth of overseas profits to the US Treasury as a result of the US tax reform. At the same time, some of the profits transferred from foreign accounts to the United States should flow into investments in the United States, the high-tech group announced on Wednesday.
Apple’s stated tax on US-contributed profits is probably the highest payment of its kind made by a US company as a result of the tax reform passed in December. Apple is by its own account already the largest US taxpayer.
Prior to the reform, the bunkered profits of Apple and other US companies were completely removed from access by the US Treasury. When they were transferred to the US, a tax rate of 35 percent would have been applied. The reform now contains a time-limited rule that only a one-time tax payment of between eight and 15.5 percent will be payable if foreign assets are transferred to the United States.
Apple has amassed over the years abroad, the gigantic profit of about $ 250 trillion. So far, the computer and smartphone manufacturer has refused to relocate to the US, arguing that, given the 35 percent tax rate, this would be to the detriment of shareholders. Now, Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company has “a deep sense of responsibility for giving back to the country and the people who made our success possible.”
The group plans to invest $ 30 billion in US capital directly over the next five years. This should create 20,000 new jobs. US President Donald Trum sprays the tax reform he has implemented as a job machine.
@Mark Brandt: Mark. It doesn’t fit the Journals agenda. They would rather give their suck ups a little whine time than report the NEWS
@Mark Brandt: 250 trillion? That would mean that Apple is bigger than the entire global economy. I think you might need to check your sums there mate.
@neilo: “The EU is making us do a similar tax “reform” in this country. No?”
No in Ireland, we have to be forced by the EU to collect tax from apple that has been determined to be owed as a result of illegal government policy.
Apple is bringing most/all of it’s foreign held reserves back to the US because of recent changes to tax laws that Trump implemented. In this case it’s apples choice to do this. They are investing further in the states with I believe up to 20000 new jobs.
This news is not reported here, because Trump bashing is a sport played by all the media, hence Trumps “fake news” cries.
Several news agencies in the states have had to retract false and misleading stories, so yes, the media have been involved in fake news. Much the same as happens here. everyone has an agenda.
@neilo:
I’ve read it on, independent.ie, reuters, and here on the journal. You need to do a little fact checking before you post
The list is all really petty stuff. So, he’s basically admitting, by their absence, that Fire & Fury and all the many serious allegations (that appear on a weekly basis, such as “sh!thole countries” comment) are true.
@James O’Nolan: He is proving that he is the child that Fire & Fury portrays him as.
So narcissistic more interested in being the “big man” then even trying to govern a country. A tactless imbecile lacking even a modicum of diplomatic skill. We should be wary of anyone who is so obsessed with the press. Shutting down a free and fair press is always high on the wish list of a despot.
@Raymond Dennehy: Isn’t exposing lies ensuring that the press is fair?
@Raymond Dennehy: free and fair press. What bloody planet are you on.
@Boutros Boutros-Ghali: That man exposing lies…hahahahahahahaha!!!
@Boutros Boutros-Ghali: trump is a pathological liar. He lies in public several times a week. Maybe if he wants others to tell the truth, he should start with himself.
@Raymond Dennehy: all press is biased, not least the USA press. They backed Clinton against Sanders but failed with trump. Only a fool believes in a free and unbiased media
@Boutros Boutros-Ghali: A fake award ceremony befitting a 10-year old is not exposing lies but rather it is certainly exposing his mentality.
@Johnny Bellew: Exposing lies by the press is exactly what it was, chap.
@Boutros Boutros-Ghali: A long time since I was called a “chap” but thanks anyway, I do look younger than my years.
In fairness, Trump is quite the expert when it comes to lies, I will grant you that:
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
Such a devisive character. Those who are anti establishment love his rebelliousness and calling out bull. The pro government\establishment folk can’t stand him.
@Peedur Dante: ironically, its because of people like you that he got in power. The pontificating, virtue signalling, sanctimonious, sneering types.
@Bairéid Rísteard:
Those who can’t see him for what he is love him. Those who see right through him can’t stand him.
@Peedur Dante:
It’s not like they haven’t got form in that dept., look at Ronnie Reagan.
@Bairéid Rísteard: ah Wally! Good to see you’re back!!
@Peedur Dante: “weak minded fools” ..”deplorables” blah blah. He’s right. Smug contempt and disregard for an enormous section of USA society by those doing well made his election near inevitable.
Hard to disagree with any of his choices US Media is amongst the worst in the West and that is saying something. Lies hashed as truths, creating their own news and worse little Western outlets syndicating these untruths and lies especially were foreign policy is concerned.
There is no such thing as ‘free press’. it’s all owned by billionaires. flake news.
@Sean Conway: and we know Trump is not a billionaire.
Trump 2020
“In this time & place, if one has not been censored, then you can be sure one has come down on the guilty side of history,”- A.W
“Censorship is intellectual atrocity,”- A.W
@neilo: “Andrew” is too easily triggered.
@neilo: Hi Neilo, my msg is that far-left psychopaths can’t win debates using their intellect so resort to censorship instead.
#They hunt in packs
#They submit complaints in packs
I see you’re wearing your hurl abuse attire today? Tisk tisk tisk
“In this time & place, if one’s not being censored, then you can be sure one has come down on the guilty side of history,”- A.W
“Censorship is intellectual atrocity,”-A.W
You get personal with your comments & that is one of the main reasons as to why you keep on getting banned..poor pet
@Havana na na na: Don’t know who you’re referring to sir, but I will say…
#They hunt in packs
#They submit complaints in packs
“In this time & place, if one has not been censored, then you can be sure one has come down on the guilty side of history,”‘- A.W
“Censorship is intellectual atrocity,”-A.W
How’s the economy going Mr Krugman?
@FrankDapavia: thank Obama for that
@Dave Thomas: eh no:
“A year ago, President Barack Obama got mixed grades as he prepared to leave office after eight years. Most economists surveyed by the Journal in January 2017 saw his policies as positive for financial stability, positive or neutral for job creation, negative or neutral for GDP growth and negative for long-term potential growth. ”
“Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal say President Donald Trump has had generally positive effects on U.S. economic growth, hiring and the performance of the stock market during his first year in office.
The professional forecasters also predicted 2018 would see solid growth and a continued decline in the jobless rate. One factor: the tax cuts signed into law by Mr. Trump in December, which most economists say will boost the economy for several years at least.”
@Michael Wall:you’d want to listen to the interview that those economists gave :) …they (economists ) gave the conman some high marks for some success in the economy but it is not all due to him.
you can give an old listen to it @ 4:40-5-00
Wait till December 2018
We’ll talk then
In fairness, he gave 10 or 11 examples of the media making mistakes in their eagerness to criticise him. He’s using evidence, for a change, and humour. I don’t know if the examples given are correct or not. I rely on the media and his political opponents to examine them and state the rebuttal, based on facts, if there is a rebuttal. Comparisons to Stalin are lazy.
@Lionel Nashe Dot Com: Claims of “humour” used here by Trump are hilarious.
@Larry Doyle: It’s ironic to give an ‘award’ to your opponents in the media. Irony is a form of humour.
He really needs to grow up.
@DJ François: His medical report yesterday says he has grown an inch since he got his last drivers licence……..
Congrats and fair play to all
In the States for electing this clown.
Trump is the most 6′ 3″ person you will ever meet. Nobody in the world is more 6′ 3″ than he is.
What a horrible immature despicable human being Trump is.
Does any of this sound familiar: Glibness and superficial charm. Grandiose sense of self-worth
Being conning and manipulative. Shallow emotions . Callousness and lack of empathy. Failure to accept responsibility for own acts. A lack of realistic, long-term goals. Impulsivity, Irresponsibility .Poor behavior controls.
@Paraic McDonagh:
Leave Hilary Clinton out of it..this article is about one of Donald’ ingenious piss takes.
@Paraic McDonagh: Traits of a Psychopath. Almost 70,000 mental healthcare professionals believe Trump is a Psychopath and have already signed this petition: https://www.change.org/p/trump-is-mentally-ill-and-must-be-removed
@Paraic McDonagh:
70,000 liberal/Democrat health care workers.
They’d be better off concentrating on the neurosis at the heart of the American psyche.
@FrankDapavia: In fairness psychopathy is not an illness but he ticks all the boxes.
@FrankDapavia: I suppose you have a point. He’s answered his critics by correctly identifying a lion and a camel from pictures of a lion and a camel and was able to identify a pattern in the sequence 1,A,2,B,3,C,4,D… and copy a picture of a cube from a picture of a cube, do he can’t possibly be a Psychopath.
BTW, his bizarre hair color is because he dyes his hair himself but is too impatient to leave the dye in for the correct amount of time. Impatience is yet another trait. The signs are all there if you know where to look.
@Paraic McDonagh: I thought it was a dromedary…….
@Larry Doyle: Distinguishing species of camel would have been a stretch too far…
Orange one is one of the biggest pliers of bs himself.
And yet hes still the president imagine that
@Mark Mcloughlin: And he’s still an amoral delusional narcissist. The political establishment will only tolerate him until it suits them to draw the long knives, and then he’s finished.
The US doesn’t have any proper news channels, they all tailor their news to get a certain viewer because of advertising space that they sell to certain type of viewer, they all lie as does the American government and both parties there, the US is built on lies and they still act towards the American Indian as if it was still the 1800′s but that is never reported either…
@Alois Irlmaier: You most certainly have a point there, the US lacks an independent, publicly funded news channel, well, they have PBS, but as far as I know, they only show documentaries
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: NPR?
Racist Pig
The Journal “forgot” to mention that Flake was speaking to an almost empty Senate floor. But that might not need important to their”journalist”.
Bozo trump
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