TV License

angelasocks

Moved house Nov 2023.  Got a letter from TV Licensing today 28 June 25  asking me if I needed a TV licence.  I haven't had a license for about 4 years and told them every year at my old address. 

However when I go to the form to tell them I don't want a license it asks me to put in a future date ie when someone will be living in the property (my current home).  I can't put a retrospective date in, it won't accept it.

So bit concerned should I have told TV license when I moved into this house even though I never wanted a TV license.  

Thanks

JSmithy45AD

Either just bin it or put down 01/01/3035

If you don't need a license then you're under no requirement to answer the letter.

angelasocks

"Either just bin it or put down 01/01/3035 "  lol. 

Just tried the website on a different browser and it lets me bypass the future date.  

Thank you 

Ayr_Rage

If you don't need a licence, don't tell them anything.

oldernonethewiser

Ayr_Rage said:

If you don't need a licence, don't tell them anything.

This is the sensible course of action. 

Cornucopia

angelasocks said:

Moved house Nov 2023.  Got a letter from TV Licensing today 28 June 25  asking me if I needed a TV licence.  I haven't had a license for about 4 years and told them every year at my old address. 

That probably means that the previous occupiers had submitted "No Licence Needed", and when this expired you got a letter.

angelasocks said:

However when I go to the form to tell them I don't want a license it asks me to put in a future date ie when someone will be living in the property (my current home).  I can't put a retrospective date in, it won't accept it.

It sounds like you've sorted it out.   Submitting "No Licence Needed" isn't a legal requirement, though, and it doesn't really mean much because TV Licensing isn't a statutory agency, and it doesn't have statutory powers to demand this information.

angelasocks said:

So bit concerned should I have told TV license when I moved into this house even though I never wanted a TV license.  

There's no requirement to do this, and nothing will come from not doing it.

TV Licensing is simply a BBC trademark, and the things they say to the public have as much factual accuracy as a Doctor Who script.

Xenon

You do not need to answer the/any letter or have any contact with the BBC - it is just a phishing exercise to get your details on record and encourage them to come to your door to sell you a licence.

Letter Bin Forget

AndyPK

they want a date, as that is when they will start sending you reminder letters again

Money_and_Travel

Ayr_Rage said:

If you don't need a licence, don't tell them anything.

Totally agree.

The less (preferably nothing) they know about you, the better.

forgotmyname

angelasocks said:

Moved house Nov 2023.  Got a letter from TV Licensing today 28 June 25  asking me if I needed a TV licence.

Frame it and sell it on ebay if that really is the case. Most people get threatening letters hinting that your breaking the law by not

having a licence but not explicitly stating you are breaking the law just enough of a threat to worry people but not land then in trouble.

My recent one says      "by law they have no option but to continue their investigation".

In BOLD it states    "You are breaching the communications act 2003 if you do not have a TV licence that covers you for...."

I stopped reading at that point and accidently dropped it into the shredder.

I cancelled Prime around the same time and they do not send threatograms.

savergrant

forgotmyname said:

angelasocks said:

Moved house Nov 2023.  Got a letter from TV Licensing today 28 June 25  asking me if I needed a TV licence.

Frame it and sell it on ebay if that really is the case. Most people get threatening letters hinting that your breaking the law by not

having a licence but not explicitly stating you are breaking the law just enough of a threat to worry people but not land then in trouble.

My recent one says      "by law they have no option but to continue their investigation".

In BOLD it states    "You are breaching the communications act 2003 if you do not have a TV licence that covers you for...."

I stopped reading at that point and accidently dropped it into the shredder.

I cancelled Prime around the same time and they do not send threatograms.

There is a difference as having cancelled prime you can't continue using the service without paying. It is technically possible to watch bbc TV without a licence so tv licensing want to find out who is doing that.