How To Legally Stop Paying Your Tv Licence!

Harveycat_2

Why is p a e d o p h i l e automatically !!!!!!!!'d by this nanny site?

Can anybody explain?

robin_banks

Gazfaz wrote: »

My daughter started Uni last year. She has spent her first year in Uni accommodation. Anxious to stay on the right side of the law and not put her at risk of a criminal prosecution I bought her a TV licence. There are 9 kids in her block. She is the only one with a licence.

I was incensed when I originally bought it to discover that there are no concessions for students, they pay the full fee. It's a national disgrace when one considers that convicts in all prison establishments and the criminally insane (including murderers, psychopathic !!!!!philes, rapists and predatory sex fiends) in Special Hospitals get them for free.

I certainly will not be buying one next year when she moves out to a shared house. The government can take a running jump.

Quite, she should buy her bloody own, if she's at uni she ought to have the brains to walk into a post office and buy one.

You can even do it on-line now.

The_Grandmaster

If your daughter isn't going to be living in the halls during the summer, I believe you can get a refund for those months being a student. I think if you google around you should find the details. Hope that helps.

Bettyboop

I would like to think it would work. Honestly, a lot of the time terrerstrial TV is full of rubbish shows....no point in paying for a TV license half of the time anyway.

jdan9

To the OP: You do not need to write such a letter to the BBC if you don't want to pay for a licence - just don't pay. However, this will mean that you will commit a criminal offence if you subsequently receive TV broadcasts.

poppypicanto wrote: »

people people people. I just can not believe the number of people who honestly believe that paying the tv license is ok. WHAT !! Ok, if we had a choice then fair play, but just stop and think for one second.....think about the word "choice"....and think about what that actually means. If we can choose whether we pay the fee, and choose whether we watch BBC programmes then fair enough - BUT WE DONT !!!!! It's a tax ! It's a fee where you have to pay it or else ! It's a rip off. It's a con !!!

Of course you have a choice. You can choose not to buy a licence, and not watch TV. Nobody is forcing you to watch Eastenders every night.

By the way, it doesn't matter if you don't pay for your licence and then just don't watch BBC programmes. You still need a licence to watch commercial stations - the money doesn't just pay for BBC programming, it also pays for the construction, installation, staffing and maintenance of the transmitters across the country - which are used by commercial stations too.

poppypicanto wrote: »

I for one don't have a great deal of money and what money I do have needs to be spent on IMPORTANT things such as food, rent, heating and day to day living costs.......but NOT the flippen BBC for crying out loud. Wake up people.....we are all being ripped off whether you can see it or not. The bbc should flood the screens with adverts in my opinion, and give us all a financial break. In fact, get rid of the bbc for crying out loud - who honestly cares. RIP OFF !!! give me back my £140 a year.

If you can't afford the licence, get rid of it. Like I say, nobody is forcing you to have it. You'd probably save some money on electricity too if you turned the TV off.

purplebutterfly

Gazfaz wrote: »

My daughter started Uni last year. She has spent her first year in Uni accommodation. Anxious to stay on the right side of the law and not put her at risk of a criminal prosecution I bought her a TV licence. There are 9 kids in her block. She is the only one with a licence.

I was incensed when I originally bought it to discover that there are no concessions for students, they pay the full fee. It's a national disgrace when one considers that convicts in all prison establishments and the criminally insane (including murderers, psychopathic !!!!!philes, rapists and predatory sex fiends) in Special Hospitals get them for free.

I certainly will not be buying one next year when she moves out to a shared house. The government can take a running jump.

LOL - wish I'd had a mum like you! In my first year in halls, none of us could afford a TV OR a licence.
Second year in halls, 6 of us clubbed together to buy an old £25 battered telly and a licence and kept it in the kitchen where we could all watch it.

Trust me, TVs and students are a bad combination - late essays treble per TV :rotfl:

And to be fair, I wouldn't support reduced student licences unless it was actually the students paying for it. Isn't that the point of going to University? To learn to budget and struggle?

I resent paying a TV licence because I rarely watch BBC programmes and I am damned if my licence fee should go towards paying Jonathon Ross' OFCOM fine! Surely he can afford it out of his millions.

indierocker85

Can I point out, that this worked for me. So to all the idiots that are shooting the OP down. More fool you. They have sent letters yes, but I respond accordingly. And as yet no action has come of it. And it has been 3 years.

jdan9

indierocker85 wrote: »

Can I point out, that this worked for me. So to all the idiots that are shooting the OP down. More fool you. They have sent letters yes, but I respond accordingly. And as yet no action has come of it. And it has been 3 years.

There has been no action simply because the threats from TV Licensing are empty threats - they just don't bother acting for some reason. It's not because the content of the letter the OP posted is 'right'. See this website.

If you are watching TV, you are still committing a criminal offence, even if you have written a letter alleging (wrongly) that the BBC are committing treason, and even if TV Licensing aren't prosecuting you at present. And by the way, even if they were committing treason, that doesn't work as a defence for you committing a crime.

Stormtrooper09

While the principle is good, the execution is based on pure fantasy. Bit like people day-dream about their pub football team beating a professional outfit 30-0.

It assumes that the licence people who come round to a persons house are completely passive morons who will sit in the lounge room utterly mesmerised by Mr Average's point by point grasp of law as he delivers spell-binding legal oratory and finally that they will leave the victim alone having "met their match". The little guy wins again!

Let's be real. As someone else wrote, if you want to stop paying this tax, take the direct route and don't even talk to them. Send their letters back or bin them, but for goodness sakes don't entertain the notion that you can take these people on at their own game! With the resources they have to throw at you, you WILL get flattened!

CopperPlate_2

And all to avoid paying £140odd a year. I can think of easier ways to have sleepless nights...