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Reporting someone about having no TV LIcence?

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WhiteDragon66 · 06/04/2024 21:39

At the moment I am living in an HMO. I have lived here for coming up to three years now.
I have a licence. However I have noticed that two of the residents within the household have been receiving letters from TV LIcensing for quite a long time now.
There are six of us all together living here. I think that I am the only one who is licensed though?
Would I be right in reporting just these two individuals, do you think, or should I just simply ignore this??
Any feedback would be really very helpful. Thank you.

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clarepetal · 07/04/2024 09:00

I think you need to get out a bit more.

x2boys · 07/04/2024 08:44

Zyq · 07/04/2024 00:50

TV licence fee cost per month: £14.12 to cover four TV channels plus news channel plus numerous radio stations plus iPlayer on unlimited number of devices.

Netflix cost per month for standard service (i.e. no adverts) for two devices: £10.99 for one channel.

I know which looks like better value to me.

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It's only better value if you actually watch any of their channels.

x2boys · 07/04/2024 08:43

Caswallonthefox · 07/04/2024 00:30

I haven't had a license for 8 years now. My TV is currently dead and is a blank picture on my chimney wall.
I get a letter/ email every couple of years asking me to let them know if I still have no TV.
If anybody came to check, I'd show them my dead TV, I'd even plug it in to prove the fecking thing is dead.
I think it's crap that we have to pay so much for, what I hear are rubbish programmes.

Why would you do that ?
Just ignore them🤷‍♀️

valensiwalensi · 07/04/2024 08:37

Don’t be a grass

VestibuleVirgin · 07/04/2024 08:35

Lupuswarriors · 07/04/2024 08:27

I'm forced to pay for a TV licence and I dont even watch the channels that the licence covers. Explain how that is fair? The licence only covers 5 channels

The licence is to watch bbc channels only

x2boys · 07/04/2024 08:35

If they are getting letters the licencing people already know they don't have a licence ,
It's not illegal to not have a licence
And even if they turn up they have zero powers of entry
Do you would just be wasting your time .

VestibuleVirgin · 07/04/2024 08:35

Firecarrier · 06/04/2024 21:48

It is an immoral tax on poor people. Ignore it.

😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just started a sociology degree have you?

Lupuswarriors · 07/04/2024 08:27

I'm forced to pay for a TV licence and I dont even watch the channels that the licence covers. Explain how that is fair? The licence only covers 5 channels

TheMuskratOfDestiny · 07/04/2024 08:12

Purplelimesoda · 07/04/2024 00:36

Mind your own business, worry about your own stuff and keep your nose out snooping at people's mail is not a nice trait and you don't sound very nice.

Plus I thought you only needed one licence per building so they have a licence ..... YOURS!

Not in a HMO each occupant requires their own license.

A HMO is different to a house share.

2024istheyearforme · 07/04/2024 08:08

Do they even watch live TV , the amount of people that think you need a TV licence just for owning a TV .....

I have a TV but it's a smart TV and I only use t for YouTube and Netflix so I don't have a TV licence, still get letters though and once a visit, I showed him my setup, that I don't want live TV and he left and said that I didn't have to have one.

BobnLen · 07/04/2024 06:08

Nothing like a TV licence thread to whip MN up, it's like a speeding thread. At least OP has spelt licence correctly

Petrine · 07/04/2024 06:06

I don’t watch live tv and so don’t need a tv licence. An inspector called and confirmed this to be the case. I told him that I was fed up receiving threatening letters on a regular basis from them and he said it would stop now that he’d been round. Well it didn’t and for years now the letters come and are thrown unopened into the recycling bin.

Letters from tv Licensing do not mean that your neighbours need a licence.

MyWhoHa · 07/04/2024 05:49

You are an awful human being.

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 07/04/2024 05:40

Changingplace · 07/04/2024 03:32

How do you think the production & broadcast of BBC Radio is paid for? By fairies?

Don’t be so silly 🤣

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How it's paid for is utterly irrelevant, besides, Licencing is far for the BBC's sole source of revenue.

It's a nonsense point, every bit as much as suggesting the availability of iPhones makes makes paying for AppleTV+ better value.

Northernsouloldies · 07/04/2024 04:31

How could you be arsed bothering with this?.

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/04/2024 03:43

Changingplace · 07/04/2024 03:32

How do you think the production & broadcast of BBC Radio is paid for? By fairies?

Don’t be so silly 🤣

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Its paid for by the commercial arm of the BBC.....so selling their stuff abroad, advertising etc. During the Clarkson, Hammond and May years Top Gear made 50 odd million for the BBC, all through product licensing and overseas syndication/sales.

You think that the licence fee funds the entirity of the BBC and SHE is being silly?! Oh that is so sweet!

Woohow · 07/04/2024 03:36

-They're receiving letters so TV Licencing already know they don't have one, what will reporting them do?

Changingplace · 07/04/2024 03:32

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 07/04/2024 01:01

TV Licensing has nothing to do with BBC Radio. Anyone and everyone is free to listen to BBC radio anywhere they like, regardless of whether or not they own a Licence for any property. It's a completely free to use service.

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How do you think the production & broadcast of BBC Radio is paid for? By fairies?

Don’t be so silly 🤣

nationallampoons · 07/04/2024 03:07

Mind your own business ffs.

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/04/2024 03:02

And without proof they can do bugger all anyway, they can threaten all they like but without proof there is no fine or anything else. And they cant get into a property without a court order which they wont get so.... who the hell cares?!

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/04/2024 03:00

I am averaging one letter a month, despite declaring I do not need a licence......because I dont! We own a TV because the kids use it for their consoles, no one in the house watches live TV or Iplayer.

Doesnt stop them writing because they dont believe me. Keep your nose out. A hell of a lot of people legitimately dont need a licence these days.

Anonymous2025 · 07/04/2024 02:43

Mind your own businesses . You don’t even know if they need it . I do not watch any life tv so we do not need one . I have Netflix , prime and Disney . No need for live tv and no need not anything bbc related .

abominablesnowman · 07/04/2024 02:32

I do love the BBC but it's completely ridiculous that the TV licence still operates on the assumption that you need one, and you then have to show that you don't. It should be a proper opt-in option

If it's going to be relevant in the modern day, it really needs to modernise, and come out of its 50s business model.

DetOliviaBenson · 07/04/2024 01:35

Wagonwheelforme · 06/04/2024 22:58

I actually think the BBC should be funded wholly through taxpayers and the equivalent cash from license should just be added to tax.

that way people who genuinely can’t afford it, won’t pay.

I think a free and independent media is a cornerstone of a democratic society. Without the BBC, we struggle to maintain that.

you may as well say ‘why should I pay for a court system because I don’t use it or need it?’
or
‘why should I pay for NHS because I never get sick?’

or
’ why should I pay for education? I don’t have kids and never went to school myself’

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Yes, free and independent media is important, but the BBC ISN'T a free and independent media! It's anything but! They harbour paedophiles, don't report facts and clearly have a bias. Tell me again why I should be funding a paedophile-supporting, biased TV company?

Mouse82 · 07/04/2024 01:24

Mind your own and do better.

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