TV Licensing harassment letters

p00hsticks

SRussell wrote: »

Hello.. could someone help me draft a letter up to send to the TV Licence people please..
They continue to harass me with threats and visits and i am a very poorly person with having severe migraines constantly from a cyst on the brain plus other disability and always too ill to talk or find the right words to them, i do not watch any BBC at all full stop, or watch tv and do not know the correct words to send to them.. please help.. many thanks :cry

You can tell them you don't need a licence online here
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/no-licence-needed/about.app

You just need to give your name. address. select the reason why you don't need one (e.g only use TV for playing games / watching DVDs) and then submit.

I've found doing this means you don't get any further communications for a few years, and they then write to you to ask you to repeat the process if still applicable.

Swipe

Or alternatively, just bin the letters from them unopened

Cornucopia

lincroft1710 wrote: »

You may not actually watch TV, but do you have one or for example do you watch live TV programmes on another device. If either you need a TV licence.

You don't need a Licence just to own a TV.

oldernonethewiser

lincroft1710 wrote: »

You may not actually watch TV, but do you have one or for example do you watch live TV programmes on another device. If either you need a TV licence.

This is incorrect.


Simply owning a television does not mean you need a licence.

oldernonethewiser

Swipe wrote: »

Or alternatively, just bin the letters from them unopened

Much easier and requires minimum effort.



Mine now go in the recycling.

POPPYOSCAR

p00hsticks wrote: »

You can tell them you don't need a licence online here
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/no-licence-needed/about.app

You just need to give your name. address. select the reason why you don't need one (e.g only use TV for playing games / watching DVDs) and then submit.

I've found doing this means you don't get any further communications for a few years, and they then write to you to ask you to repeat the process if still applicable.

I tried to do that with a vacant property.

However, I could not get very far as it asked for the date when the property would be occupied and there was no where to state 'unknown' and I am not making up a date to suit their website.

p00hsticks

Swipe wrote: »

Or alternatively, just bin the letters from them unopened

oldernonethewiser wrote: »

Much easier and requires minimum effort.

Except the poster says that

SRussell wrote: »

They continue to harass me with threats and visits and i am a very poorly person with having severe migraines constantly

Therefore I'm suggesting that the slightly less than minimum effort required for them to go through a short online process might be worth it to stop the OP feeling threatened.

oldernonethewiser

p00hsticks wrote: »

Except the poster says that




Therefore I'm suggesting that the slightly less than minimum effort required for them to go through a short online process might be worth it to stop the OP feeling threatened.

True.


TVL do say they may have to confirm your declaration with a visit which the poster may still find threatening.



Getting out of the being threatened mindset is the first step.

mobileron

Ignore them,dont talk or sign anything,they have no rights to enter your house.
Look at some youtube videos on the subject.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Time to scrap the regressive TV Tax