Reporting someone about having no TV LIcence?

I dont like subscription evasion but I'd say leave them alone.

It's up to them how they choose to live their lives, none of your business.

Irrelevant. It isn't a selling point for the TV Licence when a TV Licence is not required to use the service, so I have no idea why people repeatedly cite it as one.

But not free to make. It's funded by the licence fee.

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.

Grass

It depends on the scenario. If you have multiple occupiers like in an HMO where each occupier has a distinct address, then each person needs their own Licence to watch TV in their own room/flat/bedsit. However, if there is a communal area like a TV room, then one Licence held by any occupier or paid for by the group covers this.

Their site implies that each person requires their own licence to watch TV even in a communal setting, but this simply is not true, because Licences are issued to addresses and physical properties, not individual people. It's yet another attempt to hoodwink and generate income. If what they are implying was true, then Mum, Dad, DD19 and DS17 would all require their own licences to sit and watch the livingroom TV in the family home, and that is clearly nonsense. The home is covered by one licence, who actually paid for it is immaterial.

i don’t have a license, don’t own a tv either anymore. I watch Disney+ and paramount that’s it. Used to have a license until last year. Reporting your own flatmates? Why? That’s going to make living with them harmonious isn’t it?

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.

Fuck the BBC. I haven't paid it for quite awhile now. I don't have a TV, I have a Computer though. They are not worth saving, also if they wanted to actually enforce the TV license, they would require actual verification for iplayer, instead of a pornhub style pinky promise that you have a license.

I've never had a licence and have never had a visit. If they turn up though, best thing to do is not let them in, as they're known for faking evidence.

They'll write to you asking if you still need a licence. You can go online and declare that you don't need one.

Wow OP I sincerely hope you don't report them.
Firstly, you can't report them for just not having a TV licence. I don't have one, I don't need one. You would have to report them for watching or recording live TV without a licence, and unless you've been spying in their rooms, how do you know they're not only watching Netflix etc?
Secondly, what on earth would you gain from reporting them?!
Thirdly, letters from the TV licence don't mean they don't have a licence. My friend was on a payment plan with them and the direct debit bounced (1 letter) then they tried to take it a few days later (another letter) then they cancelled the direct debit (a third letter) then she called them and reset it back up once she'd been paid and she got two confirmation letters for that. Unless you're opening their post, which is Illegal, surely you don't know what the letters even say?

What happens when you don't renew your TV licence?

If your only evidence is that they are getting letters from TV licensing that they don't have a licence then there's nothing to report. The authorities already know, that's why they are getting the letters.

Do you have evidence that they are watching/streaming BBC/terrestrial TV content? If not then they aren't doing anything wrong.

As far as I'm concerned, they're the BBC's problem to sort out or not.

There are far worse things your neighbours can be up to than dodging the antiquated TV license - leaving dog shit everywhere, loud druggy alcoholic shenanigans, DV etc.

I'd mind my own.

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!

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.

The news is the most reliable and accurate source in a world where people make up random shit on the internet.

Didn't the BBC quite recently try and gaslight the nation that a woman killed a man by throwing him bodily to his death.

I imagine they may have 'corrected' it by now, saying it was in fact a male murderer. Still use she throughout no doubt though eh?

What in the heck? Are you just bitter because you’ve spent money on yours and they haven’t? Or do you feel a strong moral duty to report? Maybe you should become a cop.

Yes absolutely report them and turn your volume up loud whilst watching BBC live.

Are you gutted that you are paying yours like a mug? Jealous that they are not?

Just mind your own.

The shitty, supposedly impartial, BBC is in no way comparable with those things.

I got nasty threatening letters from BBC licensing for years.

Throughout all of that time I had a valid TV license. The BBC license fee rottweilers just messed up their info (probably something to do with my maiden name/married name).

Honestly, they are so aggressive, incompetent and deliberately misleading that I have no sympathy for them. And this has been a deliberate policy of the BBC for decades. I fully sympathise with anyone who doesn't pay, just because the licence fee enforcers are such bastards.

Why report? If your pissed off that you pay and they don't then simply stop paying!!!

You must be great to live with. Bet you try and tell them how many sheets per shit too

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