Pending Prosecution No Licence.

[padi56]

A while ago the television decided it was going to bloody die on me Cannot grumble around 8 years old. So I decided to go and buy another. The TV license for my house is in the wifes name. I did not see any problems. I don't watch most absolute tosh that they put on it so I don't buy a license.Well I do indirectly I pay for it and wife gets it. After the postie had delivered the mail yesterday I was greeted with this below this is the second one after me faxing all my licence details.



Any normal decent halfwit could figure out that there is a license issued to my address. Whether or not it's in my name is completely irrelevant. The fact still remains that there is a bleeding license. Are they that bloody thick and inbred that their fingers are completely devoid of any movement when it comes to typing in a full address to do a licence check?.Or is down totally to a robot computer
It's quite clearly another means for the BBC to scam even more money by getting a nice cut of the profits from some poor person ringing the number only to be greeted by some robot women.Then one with pmt droning on for 20 minutes, in a pre recorded message, just to tell them something they would already know. If they could be bothered to earn their wage and type a bloody address in the bleeding computer.
If these idiots think I'm ringing a 0870 number and wasting more of my time and money to tell them I have a license then they can go fly a kite.

What gripes me even more is the fact that the person who sold me the gogglebox has decided in his wisdom that these people need to know, I bought a bloody television. Data Protection my arse what a load of absolute boswelocks.Now I have emailed them and faxed them again a copy of our current TV licence.

I must Watch these idiots, I had a mate once and he got one of those letters, six weeks later he was arrested for non payment of fines!!!!

The ars#holes had fined him without even telling him!.Now this sort
of thing,today in the UK are more important the non crimes,that the real everyday crimes

[amanda]

eh TV Licence? What the????

[astcell]

Is that like cable? You pay for TV so that you have no commercials, right? And you have better programming?

[Gedanken]

Nope, it's not like cable. It looks like the UK's the same as Singapore - every residential property is hit with a TV licence fee, regardless of use.

[padi56]

In the Uk a colour TV licence will cost you £131.50p- $248, and as long as that TV is capable of receiving any BBC channel, you must pay the licence fee whether you watch that channel or not.But registered blind are exempt,and over the age of 74 years old gets a reduction.But if you have a TV in house capable of receiving BBC that House must have a licence

[astcell]

That's the nuttiest tax I ever heard.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by astcell

That's the nuttiest tax I ever heard.

Well the UK is one of the highest taxed countries now in the world,or we may the top

[astcell]

Originally Posted by padi56

Well the UK is one of the highest taxed countries now in the world,or we may the top

Well, as long as you get what you pay for!

[C.J.]

And I thought a dog license was pushing it

[roadcarver]

TV license??!! WTF!!! Government - its all about tax grabs! Their hands are always in your pocket!

Originally Posted by astcell

That's the nuttiest tax I ever heard.

X2!

[padi56]

Originally Posted by C.J.

And I thought a dog license was pushing it

Well a long time ago you had to have a dog licence to keep a dog in the UK.And if you ran one down on the road it was a criminal offence not to report it to the Police. Cats were ok to run over because they were un-licenced animals

[jac67]

Is that licence fee a once-off fee or annual?


John.

[Rodentman]

It is kind of them to offer a break to the blind.

For a fee like that you should be able to watch the new Aljazeera in English, and maybe the new OJ Simpson "confession" show.

What has the media come to?

[astcell]

It's enough to make the penguin on top of the television set to explode.

Originally Posted by astcell

It's enough to make the penguin on top of the television set to explode.

[Goodwatch]

We had exactly the same scheme here up to a couple of years ago. You were hit with the fee for television regardless if you had one or not, it was up to you to prove you hadn’t and then you were hit with a fee for a radio! Only if the main occupant of the house (owner or the one who paid the rent) was blind (to be proven) you had to pay for a radio instead of a TV set!

It was abolished but put into general taxes so we still pay

[JJ Irani]

Hi Padi,

During our very recent SKYPE chat, I remember you telling me how expensive things are in the UK and how much of a rip off it is......now I do believe you.

A bloody TV licence? What nonsense!! This is just a means of ripping off the public. They must collect millions of £££ by way of revenue. How unfair is this!!

I must say, after reading some of the HORROR stories you guys have to tell, NZ is a great place to live in.

JJ

[Goodwatch]

Is it perhaps because the BBC has no revenue from commercials?

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

Is it perhaps because the BBC has no revenue from commercials?

I don't think so, Frans. Plenty of commercials on BBC TV and, believe me, every advertiser has to pay megabucks depending on the number of seconds his ad has been allocated.

In India, they had this system several years ago...but then discontinued due to large protests from the public.

I think the British are too "soft"!!

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

I don't think so, Frans. Plenty of commercials on BBC TV and, believe me, every advertiser has to pay megabucks depending on the number of seconds his ad has been allocated.

In India, they had this system several years ago...but then discontinued due to large protests from the public.

I think the British are too "soft"!!

Are you sure JJ? I watch BBC 1 and 2 quite often but can't remember seeing a commercial

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

Are you sure JJ? I watch BBC 1 and 2 quite often but can't remember seeing a commercial

You're right, but the BBC channels we get here in NZ are only news, news and more news....with some talk shows, etc. No real programmes.

In the UK, however, I assume that the BBC broadcast would have commercials. But pehaps Padi can throw some light on this subject.

JJ

[padi56]

Originally Posted by jac67

Is that licence fee a once-off fee or annual?

John.

Wish it was mate,but its annually and goes up every bloody year.

Originally Posted by Rodentman

It is kind of them to offer a break to the blind.

For a fee like that you should be able to watch the new Aljazeera in English, and maybe the new OJ Simpson "confession" show.

What has the media come to?

Well if you have a registered blind person and a seeing person living in the same house then its a advantage.

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

Is it perhaps because the BBC has no revenue from commercials?

Well there is nothing stopping them to advertise like ITV and the rest of the channels

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

You're right, but the BBC channels we get here in NZ are only news, news and more news....with some talk shows, etc. No real programmes.

In the UK, however, I assume that the BBC broadcast would have commercials. But pehaps Padi can throw some light on this subject.

JJ

No commercials on the BBC JJ only about the BBC and how wonderful they are.And reminding use to pay our licence or face up to a £2000.But now those who use there mobile phones to say watch football etc,now face fines if they dont have a licence.Welcome to rip off Britain the highest taxed country in the world today.

[Rodentman]

I eliminate commercials by recording what I want to watch on the DVR and watching it the next day, fast forward thru the commercials. FWIW a 1 hr show is really between 40-45 minutes of actual program.

[miner]

re the second last point, are you exempt if you're blind?? And how pray tell do you "see" your options opposite

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by miner

re the second last point, are you exempt if you're blind?? And how pray tell do you "see" your options opposite

Good point....why the hell would a blind man want a TV in his house?

[Lt. Dan]

I've heard of the dreaded TV tax for the UK. All I can say is... thank God I live in the USA.

[astcell]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Good point....why the hell would a blind man want a TV in his house?

Can his friends come over and watch for free?

[montecristo]

Bloody tossers, I used to pay that when I was in germany, we had the same thing.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by miner

re the second last point, are you exempt if you're blind?? And how pray tell do you "see" your options opposite

Yes its wonderfully generous if there is a registered blind person in the house then the house or person is exempt from the licence fee.At one time it only covered one TV receiver,like if you had two you had to pay two licence fees, but one licence covers for more that one set.Even sex is taxed in the UK with 17% tax on contraceptives,one of the only free things in the UK now.Is the air we all breath,and what you do in the smallest room,but thats indirectly taxed by the council tax.Five years ago mine was £540 per annum now its £2400 per annum with less services, welcome to rip of Britain.