TV Licence visit? What next

moneysavingpornstar

Here's a new one for you......

Bought a glass tv stand in Sainsbury's today.

And I was asked to fill out a TV Licence declaration !!!!

The assistant said, "if you are buying a tv stand, you must have a tv":rotfl:

Whatever next? A gun licence for paper targets ?? A driving licence when I buy some car polish??

Anyway, I just filled it out with the details of my ex-neighbour !!

borosteve_2

albertross wrote: »

Personally I think it is a waste of everyones time, it should either be put on income tax, or funded by advertising to simplify everyones life. Enforcement officers can then look for a worthwhile job that actually adds something to society.

INCOME TAX????? Surely you are not suggesting that because I get off my backside and work for a living, that I then have to pay a percentage of my already highly taxed bloody earnings to occasionally watch the odd football match (which isn't on terrestrial tv anyway), whilst surely by the very logic of this statement, the workshy - who can probably watch 16 hours a day whilst paying NO income tax - benefit from my hard work?

dekaspace

borosteve wrote: »

INCOME TAX????? Surely you are not suggesting that because I get off my backside and work for a living, that I then have to pay a percentage of my already highly taxed bloody earnings to occasionally watch the odd football match (which isn't on terrestrial tv anyway), whilst surely by the very logic of this statement, the workshy - who can probably watch 16 hours a day whilst paying NO income tax - benefit from my hard work?

I know you dont mean to be nasty but not every person on benefits spends all day watching tv, but at least you said workshy as thats normally something else but many people assume all people on benefits are workshy.

When I was signing on for a few months I think I saw about 3 hours tv a week if that as tv bored me, I spent most of my time up town, in library going shopping(for cheap food my 1 luxurry)

matthewking26

dekaspace wrote: »

I know you dont mean to be nasty but not every person on benefits spends all day watching tv, but at least you said workshy as thats normally something else but many people assume all people on benefits are workshy.

When I was signing on for a few months I think I saw about 3 hours tv a week if that as tv bored me, I spent most of my time up town, in library going shopping(for cheap food my 1 luxurry)

I'll second that. I was made redundant in 2004 for 6 months before I found another job. While I signed on I spent most of my time volunteering at a college supporting students, volunteering at a childrens literacy group, and in the library either writing my childrens novel or searching for jobs on their free internet. I couldn't have stayed in all day and watched telly, I'd have gone mad!

moonrakerz

moneysavingpornstar wrote: »

Here's a new one for you......

Bought a glass tv stand in Sainsbury's today.

And I was asked to fill out a TV Licence declaration !!!!

The assistant said, "if you are buying a tv stand, you must have a tv":rotfl:

Whatever next? A gun licence for paper targets ?? A driving licence when I buy some car polish??

Anyway, I just filled it out with the details of my ex-neighbour !!

Don't try and buy a TV Times there !

borosteve_2

Matthew and Deka:
I wrote "workshy" which is what I meant as an example. I'm not sure how both of you have understood that I meant people on benefits. Again this is not what I said or meant. Some of my best friends are.... etc etc.

I was objecting to the suggestion of adding yet another variable tax where you pay more the more you earn.
FOR EXAMPLE if the tv licence WAS added to income tax say at 0.5% then: if you earn 45k a year for 55 hours a week(including overtime) and your neighbour CHOOSES to work part-time and picks up 8k per year should it be fair that your TV licence would cost £225 and your neighbour's only £40?
I would say not, otherwise we may as well all go and live in Cuba (although their weather and health system may well be better than ours;) ).

So again, my previous statement was meant as an example, not an incitement to hate people on benefits.

Mr_Gordon_2

Wonder if anyone could help me with this.

My Grandmother passed away last year, she was over 80 and qualified for a free TV Licence. Her house is now empty with nobody living there, although there is still a TV in the house it's not been switched on for over 6 months.

We've had a letter from TV Licencing advising that we don't have a licence, and they now want to inspect the property to make sure there are no TVs in it. What right to they have exactly to push for entry to the house to check. We're happy enough to remove the TV from the house just not for someone to go poking through it looking. It's bad enough having someone go through you house, but when it's a relative's house who has recently died and still has lots of personal items around it feels much worse.

Thanks for any advice.

KILL_BILL

Mr_Gordon wrote: »

Wonder if anyone could help me with this.

My Grandmother passed away last year, she was over 80 and qualified for a free TV Licence. Her house is now empty with nobody living there, although there is still a TV in the house it's not been switched on for over 6 months.

We've had a letter from TV Licencing advising that we don't have a licence, and they now want to inspect the property to make sure there are no TVs in it. What right to they have exactly to push for entry to the house to check. We're happy enough to remove the TV from the house just not for someone to go poking through it looking. It's bad enough having someone go through you house, but when it's a relative's house who has recently died and still has lots of personal items around it feels much worse.

Thanks for any advice.

they dont have a right to inspect the property - despite all the crap wording that they have in their letters

just bin them !!!

weegie.geek

Mr_Gordon wrote: »

Wonder if anyone could help me with this.

My Grandmother passed away last year, she was over 80 and qualified for a free TV Licence. Her house is now empty with nobody living there, although there is still a TV in the house it's not been switched on for over 6 months.

We've had a letter from TV Licencing advising that we don't have a licence, and they now want to inspect the property to make sure there are no TVs in it. What right to they have exactly to push for entry to the house to check. We're happy enough to remove the TV from the house just not for someone to go poking through it looking. It's bad enough having someone go through you house, but when it's a relative's house who has recently died and still has lots of personal items around it feels much worse.

Thanks for any advice.

There's nothing wrong with having a tv without a license, leave it where it is if that's easier for you. They send these letters out with half-truths and misleading statements in them. Tell them to GTF.

Blacksheep1979

Unplug the TV from the aerial and then you're all legal.