Why am I still getting these letters ?!

Well I’ve learned something new today! I love BBC iPlayer so I just carry on paying. Sounds the easiest option to be honest! I’d hate to be hounded about potential fines.

Once the declaration is filled in, I suppose the property is flagged as unlicensed and so the letters probably will not stop.

Do you work for TV licensing??

Regardless of whether one needs a license or not, the tactics, tone and frequency of their communications is a nuisance. I expect if they changed their tack they'd have more people paying it year on year, not less as it is now.

Your as bad as the BBC🙄

You never watch iPlayer or CBeebies? Don’t believe you. Where you streaming Bing?

You absolutely do not need it to own a TV set! You also do not have to let anyone in should they rock up on your doorstep. They HAVE to get a warrant to enter your home.

When my son was younger, we had a TV in the living room we used for his games console. I had no way of getting a TV signal, nor did I want one. I had a guy turn up at the door at 7.30am one morning demanding to come in. I was alone with my son and in my bloody dressing gown! He spoke to me like I was an absolute piece of shit. He thought he could bully his way in and said he had "evidence" I'd been watching TV. I sent him packing and he shouted back up my drive that he'd "get a warrant today". Absolute prick. Nobody ever came back 😆

I don't even open them now, they helpfully stamp TV licencing on the envelope so straight in the bin.

I haven't done the declaration this year, it was a waste of my time as we still got letters with an increasingly threatening tone. As mentioned by someone up thread, they don't seem to understand or believe that anyone can just not have a TV. We don't and if they want to waste their time coming to look around for one they are welcome. As yet no-one has turned up.

She doesnt HTH.

Maybe its you that need to check the guide lines
Its nothing to do with owning a TV anymore because these days many people own TV,s for streaming purposes etc
Its weather you.watch live TV, you need a licence.

If she uses a TV set whether she watches live or not, she does need one!

Its not paranoia not to let them in they have no legal right of entry so why should they come in?
Its their assumption that people must be watching tv without a licence that is wrong.

OP says she doesn’t watch live tv so she doesn’t need one.

@teletubbyy I thought if you use a TV then you pay for the license. It doesn’t matter what you watch on it.

Why do you think you shouldn’t pay?

I bin them. It's shitty system

I dont know what people do to keep getting them. We have filled in the declaration consistently for the last 10 years when it runs out, and haven't received a letter once during any period after where it was still valid. Same for my parents.

Never understood the paranoia of the "don't let them" in people. Most of us would pay if needed, and don't because it isn't. We wouldn't care if a guy doing his job has a quick look while we chat. Definitely all about feeling special.

They definitely need to stop the nonsense and put it into general taxation. It is done in other countries without an issue, the complaints about remaining somewhat independent are silly mostly and laws can be drawn to do it still even with taxation. Strengthen the BBC, strengthen the various other things the licence money goes to (thay people don't realise), increase the budget, and stop any complaints about being chased.

I sent their last ceo a LinkedIn message with photos of my TV licence and asked him to explain why his organisation was continuing to harass and bully me. I got an apology and it stopped.

Or you could ignore them as being irrelevant rubbish. Or send a solicitor's cease & desist letter.

I've been receiving variations of this letter for years, they become increasingly more threatening. I bin and ignore, no one has turned up on the doorstep as yet.

A former colleague of mine did not own a TV set; his only interest was in some key football matches, and for those he would go down to the pub!
But the Licensing Authority could not get their head around the concept, and he learned to observe the cycle; mention was made of detection vans in the street, which could even tell which channel was being shown, possible fines of up to £1,000, increasingly threatening in tone, then it would stop. After a pause, the polite reminder stage would begin again. He gave up replying to them, as they could not comprehend a home with no TV. Nothing happened.

We did actually have someone turn up at our house once so they very much still do it. In our case my ex forgot to change the address on TV license so we were happy for them to sort it. Since separating, I've not watched any live TV so I just fill in the declaration every couple of years and receive occasional letter which I don't even open until the time of the new declaration comes around.

Since you've moved recently i wonder if the old occupant hasnt updated their address on their iplayer account. Weve never had anything like that

I think just bin it. They're just trying to put the fear into people to make them pay. As if they can do anything.

I remember when they tried to say it was illegal not to get a smart meter. Yeah great way to introduce a concept. Basically criminalising people for not paying private companies for products or services we neither want nor need.

They have no right to enter your house so if they come out, you just refuse them entry and say “we don’t watch live TV and I’ve filled out the declaration.”

You are allowed to own a TV so it doesn’t matter if they see one through a window.