Ukip vows to axe TV licence fee as part of £400 windfall for families.
UKIP will pledge to scrap the TV licence fee as part of a promised £400-a-year windfall for families. The news comes as leader Paul Nuttall announced he is to stand in June’s General Election in Boston and Skegness – a seat that voted overwhelming for Brexit.
In a major speech in London this week, economic spokesman Patrick O’Flynn will declare: “It is time to axe the TV tax.”
Other tax-cutting measures in Ukip’s plan to help ordinary families with living costs will include scrapping green taxes and levies, taking domestic energy bills out of VAT and abolishing VAT on women’s sanitary products and hot takeaway meals such as fish and chips.
But it is the proposed axing of the £147 TV licence that is likely to prove most controversial.
The Ukip plan would see the fee phased out over three years, cut to £100 in year one, £50 in year two and then eliminated by the third year.
Mr O’Flynn will say that such a phased winding down of the charge will give BBC bosses time to negotiate with the Government the conditions on which it would enter the market for subscriptions and advertising as a new source of funding. Express.
