tv licence help

j_davies

Oldernotwiser wrote:

To watch television you need to buy a television licence. This household haven't bought one and have admitted this to the authorities. Why should they try to get out of paying a fine and expect an organisation like CAB to give up valuable resources to helping them avoid their responsibilities?

Who said anything about getting out of paying the [STRIKE]Tax[/STRIKE] Licence, the CAB office were good at sorting out TV licensing when I moved address and they expected me to buy two licences so YES the CAB can offer assistance with the [STRIKE]Tax[/STRIKE] Licence.

Oldernotwiser

j_davies wrote:

Who said anything about getting out of paying the [STRIKE]Tax[/STRIKE] Licence, the CAB office were good at sorting out TV licensing when I moved address and they expected me to buy two licences so YES the CAB can offer assistance with the [STRIKE]Tax[/STRIKE] Licence.

This is a straight forward case of an offence being committed, which has already been admitted to the authorities. There's no point in involving the CAB unless they're trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities. Pay up, learn and move on.

j_davies

Oldernotwiser wrote:

This is a straight forward case of an offence being committed, which has already been admitted to the authorities. There's no point in involving the CAB unless they're trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities. Pay up, learn and move on.

:rotfl: :rotfl: You sounded like some old fart who used to be in the army :rotfl: (dont take offence)

Anyway as I said the CAB office are very helpful I mean the OPs mate could have signed the letter under cohersion.

kittiwoz

I find there is a very easy way to avoid paying the TV license. Don't watch telly. It is nearly all twaddle anyway. HI agree with Oldernotwiser, having been caught in the act and signed a document admitting to it I think you're just going to have to stump up. If I were you I'd ring the TV licensing authorities to see if you can negotiate some kind of settlement, just on the basis that it can't do any harm to try, but I wouldn't hold your breath. I wouldn't bother the CAB. They are a very overstretched organisation providing an important service and personally I wouldn't wish to be diverting their time and resources away from helping people with genuine problems which are not entirely self-inflicted. I suppose you could try the students union advice centre. They normally have drop-in facilities and I wouldn't feel so bad about taking up their time but I suspect they'll just tell you that it is a fair cop and you'll have to take the consequences.

j_davies

The fine you get is usually the amount of the [STRIKE]Tax[/STRIKE] Licence anyway, I for one hope to see it abolished along with all the other outdated ways that have no rights being forced upon a nation of poor people.

mdb99jh

J Davies you are having a laugh! The TV license is what enables this country to have such an amazing institution as the BBC. It is not outdated, and a recent poll by the BBC revealed that the majority of people in the UK think it is the best way for funding as opposed to advertising/pay per view. I consider my license fee a bargain! As for the people of this country being poor, I think you need a trip to the third world to see what being poor really is. With regards to the OP, its a case of pay up and learn from the experience (as many others have said).

j_davies

mdb99jh wrote:

J Davies you are having a laugh! The TV license is what enables this country to have such an amazing institution as the BBC.

No im not having a laugh, as you have clearly pointed out its an institution, and outdated one at that Institutions are usually closed after some time but this old dinosaur is still on life support.

mdb99jh wrote:

It is not outdated, and a recent poll by the BBC revealed that the majority of people in the UK think it is the best way for funding as opposed to advertising/pay per view. I consider my license fee a bargain!

:rotfl: :rotfl: A poll by the BBC I doubt very much they would say the TV licence is poor value for money, if its a bargain you have too much money.

mdb99jh wrote:

As for the people of this country being poor, I think you need a trip to the third world to see what being poor really is.

This country is poor but not to greedy sods, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2566911.stm oh look another BBC Poll :rotfl:

mdb99jh

I guess if you really are that poor, you won't be able to afford a tv anyway, so it won't matter. Anyway, whether or not you agree with the principle of the license fee, it is currently the law that you must purchase one if you have a tv, so the OP should just pay up.
I fail to see what you are basing your whole "institutions=bad" theory on, maybe someone mentioned it at the pub and you thought you would regurgitate it here to try and sound clever, without actually knowing what you were saying lol!

Oldernotwiser

j_davies wrote:

:rotfl: :rotfl: You sounded like some old fart who used to be in the army :rotfl: (dont take offence)

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I'll take anything that's offered and you are being offensive

newfoundglory

Oldernotwiser wrote:

To watch television you need to buy a television licence. This household haven't bought one and have admitted this to the authorities. Why should they try to get out of paying a fine and expect an organisation like CAB to give up valuable resources to helping them avoid their responsibilities?

Because the system is screwed. TV Licensing cases are treated as criminal rather than a civil case. This means the fine is massively disproportionate to the "crime".... you would get fined LESS for things which arguably worse than not paying your TV License.... is that justice?

Plus, i think the way capita operates is a disgrace. They have little or no regard for data protection act either... and i have personally extracted money out of TV Licensing/Capita for their breaches of said act. Capita made in excess of £130-million profit last year - the whole system is a complete scandal.

I'm sure all the BBC fanboys out there love how a chunk of their license fee goes into the capita shareholders pocket. Where is the fine going to go? Capitas pocket again? Or maybe TV Licensing can waste it on paper and postage sending out those harassing letters to people.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.... you get the idea.