Consider yourselves lucky.
Here in Ireland we pay licence fee too. But we also have to pay Sky if we want to watch the tv channels through any digital medium - there is no Freeview provider. Whilst you can watch through your aerial at the moment, it's due to switch to digital only soon.
As to taxes - we pay income tax, at 20 and 41%, and if you're unemployed you get the dole. But if you're not married you can't claim dole for your partner or tax free allowance for them if you're working and they're not; nor can they claim social welfare if you're working. With me so far?
We also pay PRSI. This in theory is to pay for health and social insurance. Only it doesn't, so we have a health levy on top of that that runs to 4% of all income, with no 'tax free allowances/credits' applying. And then the government has also added a 2% income levy on top, again with no TFA. At the last budget my income dropped by 7% as my mortgage interest relief was stopped too.
VAT is levelled at 21.5% as opposed to your current 15%.
We pay Vehicle Registration Tax - this adds literally thousands to the cost of every car and has been declared an illegal tax by the EU, not that there are any plans to change it.
Travel into and out of the country is taxed at ten euro a pop.
Road tax doesn't go to roads, it's used to fund the water system. Only now they want to add water rates too (I know you've had these for years)
Ah well.