TV licences: 400,000 don't have one, but do you know the law?

zaax

thelawnet wrote: »

There is no 'road fund licence'.

Vehicle Excise Duty is an emissions-based tax. Electric cars and other low-emission vehicles pay nothing.

Cars and other low-emission vehicles are taxed its just that tax present is zero

zaax

Battleaxe44 wrote: »

I got caught not having a TV Licence. Where I come from never needed one, it was aboloshied eons ago, so naively wnet ahead and enjoyed my TV viewing for several years. letters did arrive, but as I planning at the time to leave the country I was bothering to buy something I would not be using and then wait for a refund.

Got home from shopping oe Saturday afternoon to be met by a very nice gentleman who introduced himself as the dreaded License Inspector. i invited him in, sta him down, made him a cuppa and we chatted. i esplained the circumstances why i didn't have that piece of paper. he duly wrote everything down and asked could I pay for the license for the year and I told him no, and I woud not set up a DD either. he went away and I didn't hearanother thing. irony of this was, he said if we had retuned five minutes later he would have been gone.

Fate steps in husband at time becomes ill and then dies.. Eventually I meet new husband, and he moves in with his TV License.. so by default I am now lawful. In four years time he is 75, so I guess than we wont be paying that fee.

I do object to the fee, simply because it is something from the ark. Now we are into the silly season of viweing and most of the stuff viewed is replays and how many times can you see The Great Escape? I would not object of things were of quality, no repeats of repeats and as we pay a Sky subscription (well I have honed that package down) and it will be gone next month, I do object to the License. if all the TV channels got a piece of the pot, then it would be share of the spoils...

The License should be done away with and let the BBC be put on a commercial footing with the other channels.

If I had not remarried, I would not have a license.

This is how conmen work.

Its either this method (which lot of other countries do) or the US method - 1/2 hour of adverts every hour.

Cornucopia

zaax wrote: »

Its either this method (which lot of other countries do) or the US method - 1/2 hour of adverts every hour.

What's the logic, here? If the BBC disappeared tomorrow, why would ITV, Five and C4 have to change to increase their advertising? And why would OFCOM let them?

As an aside, I had been mellowing in my attitude towards the BBC's broadcast side recently. And then I had the misfortune to watch "I Love My Country".

Battleaxe44

zaax wrote: »

This is how conmen work.

Its either this method (which lot of other countries do) or the US method - 1/2 hour of adverts every hour.

I hope you are not referring me as a conman...that is very rude if you are. I do pay my way, just that the TV license sticks in my craw....

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

zaax wrote: »

This is how conmen work.

Its either this method (which lot of other countries do) or the US method - 1/2 hour of adverts every hour.

And I watch films on crackle. No tv licence (legal) and they only have the occasional advert.

No I will later catch the cricket later on Demand 5 later

System

zaax wrote: »

Its either this method (which lot of other countries do) or the US method - 1/2 hour of adverts every hour.

I don't mind adverts myself. What I don't like is people who expect everyone to subsidise the BBC for them because they don't like adverts. For these people its all about them.

Oh and the facts would help in that the US has the same amount of adverts as the UK, the running time of the DVD boxsets proves this

System

zaax wrote: »

This is how conmen work.

Are you refering to the BBC TV Licence goons who work on commision so set a lot innocent of people up by falsifying forms after they've been signed?

windyridge1

My daughter lives in a bed sit has paid her TV licence for two years....and don't laugh but only now had we both realised that she didn't have to pay as she only watches DVDs and plays games. She has no access to streamline programmes either.

She called TV Licensing and they basically said she could be owed the money and when she asked how can she claim, their response was "I have no idea" Great help"

Any ideas?

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windyridge1 wrote: »

My daughter lives in a bed sit has paid her TV licence for two years....and don't laugh but only now had we both realised that she didn't have to pay as she only watches DVDs and plays games.

You can write to them asking for a refund, but don't expect it to be easy. How will you show your daughter couldn't receive any live TV for the past two years?

windyridge1

Thanks, I have gone onto the website for her and they ask for paper documentation! Really! She has a wall connection for Sky but has no sky box...how the heck do you evidence it!

Surely its not right for them to keep money that doesn't belong to them.