Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? Digital and Cable

[anne_t_squires]

 "Tonks wrote:
  
> 
> IF you want something to be screwed up, just put a government agency 
> in charge of it!!! You would think that by now the goverment would 
> understand the people. We all wait till April 15th to do our taxes. 
> We will all wait till the last day to get our boxes, just before we 
> need them. How come they can't figure that out? I know, I know.. 
> they don't want a run on the stores... but still... they should know 
> us by now. 
> 
> Tonks_op
>


Anne Squires:

Sister, I feel your pain.  In the county where I live you have to pay
your ad valorem (tag sticker) on your car on or before your birthday.
 They mail out your bill about six weeks before your birthday.  You
are not allowed to pay before you get your statement because...? Well,
I'm not sure why.  I think they want the money to come in at a steady
pace or something. Anyhow, until last year I thought the deadline was
the end of the month of your birth, not your precise birthday.  I,
like you indicated that most people do, waited until the last minute.
 My birthday is August 29th and I was thinking that I had until August
31st to pay my tax. I didn't have time on the 29th; so I went by on
the 30th.  They charged me a thirty dollar late fee!!!!  I was 24
hours late!!!! And, of course, they would not waive the fee or reduce
it or anything when I explained that I had thought that I had until
the end of the month.  I bet some people are really late paying this.
 But no, there is a flat late fee for everyone.  Nothing graduated or
pro rated or whatever.  This year I paid as soon as the bill came.

Anne Squires