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  • WelshBluebird
    WelshBluebird Posts: 388 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    iPlayer and Radio?

    Neither of which you need a licence for (unless you watch live stuff on iPlayer).
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    It would still stop the letters though and when you watch television you will be able to do so with a clear conscience.

    And if the person doesn't watch live TV?
    Why should they pay for a licence when they do not need to?
  • [Deleted User]
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    WelshBluebird wrote: »
    And if the person doesn't watch live TV?

    Which I've already, quite clearly, stated is the case.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    shaun_from_Africa wrote: »
    The problem was mentioned in my earlier post.



    The property was unoccupied so there wasn't anyone living there to meet with an inspector, and they were clearly aware of this fact, a statement which they were basically saying was false.
    I was living in Ireland (the house was in Sussex) so it wasn't possible for me to be there to meet an inspector.

    Another problem I had with them visiting was that I had sent them a signed statement saying that there was no TV reception equipment in the property.
    If I don't have a car I don't have to prove this to the DVLA, so why the difference with a TV?

    Cars have registrations to help the authorities keep up to date with them. Televisions are a bit different really. I suppose from the car analogy perspective, it would be the same as declaring the car as SORN'd, but you are still driving around in it. As that is a very common bit of deception, it is no wonder that they tend to err on the side of caution.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Pollycat wrote: »
    I'm sure the last 7 or 8 pages have helped the OP no end with his/her situation. :cool:

    It may have done, if the situation actually existed in the first place. ;)
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Cornucopia wrote: »
    Because that's not how British legal principles work. There's no other agency that just "drops round" to check that you aren't breaking the law, and that you are paying your taxes.

    The BBC's process is designed either just within or just outside the law to get around the fact that legislators never intended for them to do anything other than drive down the street with a Detector Van.

    I don't know why they don't do that, and it's not important to me. But the fact that they don't doesn't give them carte blanche to just make up their own process and inflict upon the population, to undermine historic legal principles and to pretend that they have an authority to do it all.

    It's a bad thing. And if it were anyone other than the BBC, I suspect they would never get away with it... the BBC would be on their backs from day one. ;)

    Yes there is.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • [Deleted User]
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    I suppose from the car analogy perspective, it would be the same as declaring the car as SORN'd, but you are still driving around in it.

    Except, of course, you don't need to SORN a car you don't own.
  • [Deleted User]
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Yes there is.

    Is there?

    Do tell.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    WelshBluebird wrote: »
    Neither of which you need a licence for (unless you watch live stuff on iPlayer).



    And if the person doesn't watch live TV?
    Why should they pay for a licence when they do not need to?

    The question was, "what else does the licence fee pay for?" The licence fee pays for the radio and iPlayer.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    Which I've already, quite clearly, stated is the case.

    So, I have to subsidise your viewing?
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • [Deleted User]
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    What viewing :huh:
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