The government is considering forcing households that only view streaming services to pay the BBC License fee.
The idea of expanding the license to cover viewers of services such as Netflix and Disney+is one of the list of options discussed by ministers, Bloomberg reported.
One critic noticed the suggestion to expand the license to record streamers as 'one of the most Bonkers ideas ever made up'.
According to sources, these discussions between the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport and the office of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The government looks at how the current financing model for license costs can be replaced or change when the current BBC charter ends in December 2027.
Currently, people do not need a TV license to view 'on-demand' shows on services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
If people watch live TV or stream, they have to buy a license.
Under the alternative options that ministers are considered, let the BBC use advertisements, streaming services touch with a certain load or those who coordinate on BBC radio make to pay a costs.
The idea of expanding the license to cover viewers of services such as Netflix and Disney+, is one of the list of options discussed by ministers
But one critic noticed the suggestion to expand the license to record streamers as 'one of the most Bonkers ideas ever made up'
The government can still decide to change or even maintain the current TV license system.
Financing via tax or subscription remains options.
Ministers will also take into account calls to a system that sees richer households pay more than worse.
According to the report, a subscription model people who view the On-Demand Service of the BBC online can pay a subscription costs.
John O'Connell, Chief Executive of Drukgroep The Alliance of the Tax Payers, said: “Forcing streaming service users to cough up the license fee would really be one of the most Bonkers ideas that have ever been invented.”
He added: “Far from the modernization of the BBC financing system, it would only further anchor the already archaic nature of the hated TV tax.”
Cultural secretary Lisa Nandy has recently excluded general taxes as a replacement for the BBC License fee.
The TV license is to rise to £ 174.50 in April. She told the BBC breakfast earlier this month that the license fee was not only insufficient, it is insufficient money to support the BBC, but it is also deep regressive. '
Currently, people do not need a TV license to view 'on-demand' shows on services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video
But according to Bloomberg, Mrs. Nandy's comments were not considered useful by number 10, because the government could still retain the licensing model.
The report added that the Starmer's office was not impressed by her approach to the issue so far.
Last year's BBC annual report showed that there were half a million fewer TV licenses than the year before, driven by the growth of streaming services.
The Bloomberg report described the discussions as 'provisional' without decisions about the financing model.
There have already been calls for streamers to finance British television.
Peter Kosminsky, director of Wolf Hall, recently submitted evidence to a parliamentary investigation and said that 'five percent of the British subscription income of each streamer' should be reserved for a cultural fund '.
He said it could “be used exclusively for high-end drama of specific importance for the British audience.”
Every movement to start charging streaming -TV subscribers can provoke anger because these services already charge their customers to use them.
A spokesperson for DCMS said: 'We don't comment on speculation. We will provide more details about Charter Review plans in due course. '
