Comments on: What is the BBC doing? http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/09/07/what-is-the-bbc-doing/ Richard Murphy on tax and corporate accountability Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:05:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Tax Research LLP http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/09/07/what-is-the-bbc-doing/#comment-168004 Tax Research LLP Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:57:17 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/09/07/what-is-the-bbc-doing/#comment-168004 Complete nonsense No one has to do business with anyone Ethical codes of conduct are legal - as is the case on certain forms of advertising of food products and products aimed at children The BBC could refuse these adverts And it should Complete nonsense

No one has to do business with anyone

Ethical codes of conduct are legal - as is the case on certain forms of advertising of food products and products aimed at children

The BBC could refuse these adverts

And it should

]]> By: james willis http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/09/07/what-is-the-bbc-doing/#comment-167904 james willis Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:57:15 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/09/07/what-is-the-bbc-doing/#comment-167904 I don't like tax havens either. But the BBC receives no license fee to pay for worldwide services. It must advertise if the service is to exist. To describe an advertisement as the BBC "promoting" a product assumes all advertisers endorse all products advertised. This is a preposterous suggestion.. Clearly they don't. In fact, you advance the company by sugesting that the BBC promotes it. If broadcasters turned down advertisements from advertisers who satisfied the law, which these companies do, they would be in court in about 2 seconds. I don’t like tax havens either. But the BBC receives no license fee to pay for worldwide services. It must advertise if the service is to exist. To describe an advertisement as the BBC “promoting” a product assumes all advertisers endorse all products advertised. This is a preposterous suggestion.. Clearly they don’t. In fact, you advance the company by sugesting that the BBC promotes it. If broadcasters turned down advertisements from advertisers who satisfied the law, which these companies do, they would be in court in about 2 seconds.

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