TV Licence article Discussion

kennyrwallace

This is titled wrongly,it is not a license to watch tv it is a license to watch the bbc.
I have an app called TV mucho,Am I correct in assuming that if I ony watch bbc programmes on catch up on this app (not iplayer ) then I dont need a tv license

Cornucopia

kennyrwallace wrote: »

This is titled wrongly,it is not a license to watch tv it is a license to watch the bbc.

No, it IS a Licence to watch TV. That is: broadcasts from British TV channels and any video content from BBC iPlayer.

I have an app called TV mucho,Am I correct in assuming that if I ony watch bbc programmes on catch up on this app (not iplayer ) then I dont need a tv license

The App suggests that it is for watching UK TV abroad, and if you are outside the UK, you do not need a Licence. If you are using it to watch British TV channels in the UK, then you need a Licence to use it.

The MSE article that this thread is linked to is quite self-explanatory about when you need a Licence.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

edit: I'm not mucho impressed with the TV Mucho website. Why doesn't the "Pricing" page work?

Sandy65

I have been charged £24 admin charge on top of my tv licence fee today is this correct procedure?

robatwork

Sandy65 wrote: »

I have been charged £24 admin charge on top of my tv licence fee today is this correct procedure?

You've bought it from some dodgy site?
We'll need more info to tell you - can you paste the confirmation with the admin charge (remove personal info).

Does the confirmation come from tvlicensing.co.uk?

Andy_L

Sandy65 wrote: »

I have been charged £24 admin charge on top of my tv licence fee today is this correct procedure?

No, you have probably been scammed by a company providing the service of buying your licence for you.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

This corporate organisation has an income through the regressive TV Tax of £3,800,000,000 equivalent to the worlds 135th nation by GDP

Time to scrap this tax.

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kennyrwallace wrote: »

it is not a license to watch tv

It's not a license, it's a licence.

Cornucopia

Sandy65 wrote: »

I have been charged £24 admin charge on top of my tv licence fee today is this correct procedure?

There are several situations in which TV Licensing might take more money from you than you are expecting:-

- When you begin a payment plan, the payments are roughly twice as much for the first 6 months than they would be if you were simply paying 1/12 of the Licence Fee. This money remains as credit and is refunded when the Licence is (eventually) cancelled or the account is changed to a different payment method.

- When you pay quarterly, there is a fee of £5pa.

- When you get a new Licence after being unlicensed for some time, then they may try to backdate it to cover some/all of the unlicensed period.

If your scenario is not one of the above, then I agree with other posters - it is likely you have been scammed. Another poster managed to get her scam fee back, so it is worth investigating. The first step is to establish (directly with TV Licensing) what your Licence status is.

Nick_C

Sandy65 wrote: »

I have been charged £24 admin charge on top of my tv licence fee today is this correct procedure?

You possibly bought from http://www.licenceplus.co.uk which is a private company that relies on people using a misleading third party website. They charge a £24 admin fee for doing what you could have done for free at https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/

Disgusting that if you do a Google search for "buy a TV license", this comes at the top of the list, above the proper BBC/TV Licensing site.

Don't trust Google!

EachPenny

Nick_C wrote: »

Disgusting that if you do a Google search for "buy a TV license", this comes at the top of the list, above the proper BBC/TV Licensing site.

It didn't for me just now (maybe a 'settings' thing?) but I agree it is wrong for any sites that charge an admin fee to come up in a basic search for how to pay the TV tax.