I could fill in the declaration but honestly I can't be arsed and it's a non issue
As much as the BBC like to believe that they are special and nobody could possibly live without them, they are just another product that people can choose whether or not to buy.
We personally do choose to buy it and use their services, but it is absolutely outrageous that they consider everybody one of their customers by default and accuse them of stealing if they don't have a licence - and are allowed to send nasty letters, threatening people with court, if they have chosen not to be their customer. It's breath-taking arrogance. Why on earth should you be expected to take the trouble to tell them that you aren't their customer? Imagine if every service provider and shop out there that you don't use expected you to do the same!
I presume they must pay Crapita a huge amount for all of their many concerted and persistent efforts in doing the BBC's dirty work for them; so I wonder how much of the money that they manage to get in - a great amount of which comes from deliberately terrifying and bullying elderly and otherwise vulnerable people who very well may not need one (otherwise known as extortion) - goes straight into their own back pockets?
To be honest, the BBC now has so many adverts - for their own programmes, their own content (like BiteSize), government propaganda information and - ironically - for their licence fee, that I sometimes wonder if it might not jus be better to swap the adverts for ones for cornflakes or toothpaste, make it free for everybody and stop harassing people who don't want/need or can't afford a TV licence.
Do black & white licences still exist? I thought it was based on whether you could receive colour - and as every old B&W TV would now need to be connected to some kind of digital box, which have only ever been made to receive colour, who can legitimately claim that they only receive B&W?
I know some people used to buy B&W licences to use with their B&W tellies to save money each year, and blind or partially-sighted people might as well have done so (do they still have the half-price licence for people registered blind, though?).
There were (maybe still are) plenty of people who were/are indeed watching colour but figured that, with no licence, they would be hounded and caught; but if they bought one at a third of the price, they would be safely on the 'licensed' list and thus get away with it.