[Stuart]

I'd beg to differ with the government not adopting that concept, even if they might not be so keen to admit that concept is the case with lot of other taxes and bills.

Unfortunately, it's neither a State nor a Council provided service like those which have a universal charge on every taxpayer.

Either people don't need it, they use free alternatives, or they pay another provider for something similar. It can't be an enforcible charge to everyone. It simply doesn't meet the criteria.

There needs to be a different solution, but I'm as clueless as everyone else as to what that could be.

Only 23 million households pay for a TVL, so you can't just charge 5 million additional households for something they made a conscious decision not to require.