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And you don’t have a device you can stream on where you watch TV?
Have plenty of devices which could but never watch BBC (or any TV channels). NB You don't need a license to own a device capable of streaming TV, only to use it to do so.
Netflix is pretty much all we watch and not a lot of that either - I've been watching Foundation for several weeks now and only got as far as Episode 4.
Random thread resurection, but we were actually visited by a TV license person this morning. Sadly, he / she didn’t so much as knock on the door, just posted through a ‘You’ve been visited’ hand filled in form.
They have told a commons select committee that they expect to double prosecutions now we coming out if the pandemic
They'll probably credit check you and realise you aren't vulnerable and ignore you and go for the easy pickings
Previous years I've just rung up and told them I don't have a TV and they leave you alone, but I can't be arsed anymore and am quite curious to see what happens if you don't....
Sounds like a load of pointless hassle created by an annoying virtue signaller to me. Just tell them, instead of us. Fuss over.
Have plenty of devices which could but never watch BBC (or any TV channels). NB You don’t need a license to own a device capable of streaming TV, only to use it to do so.
Correct! Then you have nothing to worry about.
“They’re chasing me for VED, but the joke is on them… I’ve taken it off the road, but I’m not telling them it’s SORN, I’m telling you lot instead… I want to see what they do. Isn’t working as a civil servant fun. Getting to waste all that time and money because of my japes.”
Isn’t working as a civil servant fun.
They actually work for Capita, although probably indirectly eg temps / sub contractors.
“They’re chasing me for VED
There is a clear legal distinction between the two scenarios (although I'm sure you don't care in the slightest). With VED you are obliged to tell them whereas with TV you're not.
an annoying virtue signaller to me
You're airing your insecurities in public again....
My mother in law moved in to a new build retirement complex last week. Over 70s only apartments you know the type.
There were 4 mildly threatening letters from tv licensing waiting for her in the mat on move in day…!
I felt like a right rebel for the 24 hours between plugging the tv in and informing them that she had moved house!
Must be slim pickings I guess finding addresses without tv licenses
Must be slim pickings I guess finding addresses without tv licenses
I doubt it. All the address data will be available to them, cross reference with credit checking agencies and you get a list of easy targets. Poor area, low credit rating, suddenly stop paying, they will focus on these rather than the long-term no licence addresses
Must be slim pickings I guess finding addresses without tv licenses
Or they’re automatically generated.
With VED you are obliged to tell them whereas with TV you’re not.
You’re not legally obliged, but it takes seconds, less time than to tell us you haven’t.
You’re not legally obliged, but it takes seconds, less time than to tell us you haven’t.
You know what the S in SORN stands for, right? You can be fined for having a vehicle which is neither taxed nor SORNed. The same is not true for TV licensing.
I have a TV licence, I think it's good value, but if I didn't need one then I wouldn't be notifying them because of their bully-boy tactics.
Yes, I know the difference. I meant no legal obligation to declare that you don’t need a TV license. I was acknowledging/agreeing that difference exists. But taking a public stand not to notify, rather than just doing it, achieves what exactly? Causing cost and hassle to make a point.