TV License question

ioscorpio

http://www.tvlicensing.biz/

This website has advice for people who don't need a licence, but are being harrassed by TVL

superscotsman

If you want to pay the tv licence in installments, put the money into the bank and get the interest on it. The tv licence is a stealth tax. Everybody thinks that it goes directly to fund the bbc. In fact, the bbc only get a tiny fraction of the revenue raised: the bulk of it goes to [cue menacing music again] the government.
The tv licening people do not have right of access. You can slam the door in their faces. They are mainly from a firm of subcontractors called Capita. Do not under any circumstances answer any questions. You don't have to give them your name. Don't let them into your house, and above all DON'T SIGN ANYTHING. I'll repeat that, just in case you missed it: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
If I want to watch Big Brother I go down to Dixon's to watch it, because I don't have a TV licence.

monkeymanforever

0800 328 2020
Just phoned to pay for my TV licence by DD, at the end of the call they kindly told me about this FREEPHONE number. Err, yeah thanks.

Dora_the_Explorer_5

In case this helps anyone. I bought a TV from Argos last week and was asked for my name and address, I could have given them any address and they wouldn't have known it was incorrect. What's the point of asking?

superscotsman

Dora_the_Explorer wrote:

In case this helps anyone. I bought a TV from Argos last week and was asked for my name and address, I could have given them any address and they wouldn't have known it was incorrect. What's the point of asking?

They never used to, but the TVLA forced them to do it with a lawsuit; so they have to at least go through the motions.

I did hear of someone who contacted a radio show to say he had bought a TV set from a store (not Argos), and filled his name in as "Robin Hood" and his address as "No fixed abode." The store accepted it. As you say, they never even looked at it.

superscotsman

While I was remembering that radio show. I will tell you this story. Sorry if you have heard it before, and I am jealous of anyone who is hearing it for the very first time.

A guy rang up the radio show to say that he was expecting a call from the TV licence inspectors. He decided to set them up, so he acquired a busted TV set from a skip.
When they came, he asked: "How much would we owe you if we didn't have a television?"
The pair of inspectors looked at one another and one answered: "Nothing."
"Just wait there a minute," said the house holder.
He went into the house. About 30 seconds later, a television set came hurtling out the window and landed on the ground with a crash.
The householder reappeared at the door. "There's your television," he said, and shut the door.

ginger_nuts

a male friend at work said the TV licence inspector called at his house one day just as his wife was arriving home from work .She said "oh my husband used to take care off these thinks and he died three months ago , and I had more important things to do .I will see what I can do about a licence "