TV Licensing: Vent and Warning

Cornucopia

trukdiver wrote: »

How do you prove that? I have an analogue TV and DVD player in a holiday home (no set top box or proper aerial). The TV is in working order and would work with portable aerial but there isn't a signal to receive! There doesn't seem to be an option on their form to explain that!

You don't have to prove it.

And there's no requirement to fill in their online form, either.

b33r

trukdiver wrote: »

How do you prove that? I have an analogue TV and DVD player in a holiday home (no set top box or proper aerial). The TV is in working order and would work with portable aerial but there isn't a signal to receive! There doesn't seem to be an option on their form to explain that!

If you don't drive a car on the road do you write to the DVLA to prove you don't need to pay VED? If you haven't committed a crime do you regularly report to the police station to prove you haven't? No? then why do you feel you need to prove you don't watch (or record) live TV?

Just ignore their stupid letters which IMO should be a crime and get on with your life, if they ever come round tell em to get lost and to stop harassing you.

bod1467

b33r wrote: »

if they ever come round tell em to get lost and to stop harassing you.

And whatever you do, do not sign anything ... even if they say it's just to confirm that they visited. They will abuse the signature and use it as proof that you have committed an offence.

enfield_freddy

DON'T GIVE EM YOUR NAME PIKE!!!!!!




they get annoyed with me , Mr A.N Other , evidently there are 27 people on my street with the same name

trukdiver

b33r wrote: »

If you don't drive a car on the road do you write to the DVLA to prove you don't need to pay VED? If you haven't committed a crime do you regularly report to the police station to prove you haven't? No? then why do you feel you need to prove you don't watch (or record) live TV?

Just ignore their stupid letters which IMO should be a crime and get on with your life, if they ever come round tell em to get lost and to stop harassing you.

Thanks for the reassurance.

Actually, if you have a car and it's off the road you do have to SORN it, but there's a fine if you're caught with it on the road (even parked).

I just ignore the letters but they have become increasingly threatening - as if they could enter the place and search for illicit TV's!

enfield_freddy

yes , regarding a car , however once a car is sorned and promised not to be used , the police do not keep sending you letters threatening you

Butterfly_Brain

The licence fee should be scrapped it is an out of date corporate tax imposed on us by a corrupt BBC.
It is time they funded themselves like other channels have to!

Thankfully Gove wants to decriminalise it, he should push to scrap it altogether

trukdiver

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

The licence fee should be scrapped it is an out of date corporate tax imposed on us by a corrupt BBC.
It is time they funded themselves like other channels have to!

Thankfully Gove wants to decriminalise it, he should push to scrap it altogether

They used to have a TV licence in NZ and still had advertising!

They were just as heavy handed with their enforcement. The sent a letter to the PO box I was using, demanding to know why it didn't have a TV licence!

enfield_freddy

most European countries have a government tax on watching TV media


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence


maybe scrapping the bbc might not be a good idea

enfield_freddy

trukdiver wrote: »

They used to have a TV licence in NZ and still had advertising!

They were just as heavy handed with their enforcement. The sent a letter to the PO box I was using, demanding to know why it didn't have a TV licence!

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Licence fees were first used in New Zealand to fund the radio services of what was to become the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. Television was introduced in 1960, and with it the television licence fee, later known as the public broadcasting fee. This was capped at NZ$100 a year in the 1970s, and the country's two television channels, while still publicly owned, became increasingly reliant on advertising. From 1989, it was collected and disbursed by the Broadcasting Commission (NZ On Air) on a contestable basis to support local content production. The public broadcasting fee was abolished in July 1999,.[91] NZ On Air was then funded by a direct appropriation from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.




no licence fee now