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[Lizzie Zoom]

It's not worth the hassle of risking £1000 fine and a criminal record unless you are 100% sure 

who knows ?

lots of fake news about if you need one or not 

Exactly. Risking it all for just £13 per month!!

Many on here are quiet prepared to pay vast sums on Virgin, Sky, etc services, but moan about £13.   

So if I charged you £13 a month for something you genuinely never used you'd find that acceptable.   

I have a TV licence to play safe but we do not watch live TV, and almost certainly never a BBC channel or ITV live. I haven't watched the news for years, it's always bad news so we have given that a miss for many years, and I'm not into any sport. I would gladly have the BBC channels removed from my TV altogether. As you can tell, we are not big on TV, so little so that Stemo asked where I'd been hiding when I picked up on something that was clearly old news.    Which other service could get away with charging you for something you do not use. OOF is my news feed. 
As for other services, Netflix, Sky etc., people can choose whether they justify paying for those or not. 

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One of my old aunties got fined years ago for not having a TV licence before they had detector vans going around, she wrote in regarding a TV competition and received a letter saying no record of a licence  at her address, poor old girl was traumatised..😅

Talk about shooting herself in the foot then. 

I've had to buy a TV Licence for my elderly parents for the last couple of years as they're not receiving Pension Credit so they have to pay now. They're both bedbound, they've both got dementia and neither of them can see the wall opposite them, let alone the TV on it.    The TV hasn't been switched on for almost four years but if I remove it, it's like another kick in the teeth for their sad demise. 

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She's still around 99 years old now but still 100 percent okay, but as deaf as a post last time I visited I could hear her TV from outside her house.

Ah, bless

I bet the neighbours love her

[TheBoy]

Don't you have to pay the lefty tax if you have the means to watch Aunty terrestrially or via the interwebs

The interwebb bit is a grey area, but if you have the means to receive any UK channel at home, via aerials, sats or cable, you have to pay for knobenders and strictly cum masterbating.

This is not correct.  Having the means to watch TV is irrelevant, the TV licence is required only if you watch any live broadcast programme, via TV or Internet device, or you watch anything on iPlayer (live or not).  So long as what you are watching is essentially on demand and you don't watch live broadcast, you don't need a TV licence.

So watching F1 on Now TV would fall under the category of requiring a TVL.

Oooo, has that recently changed. It seems they now are accounting for online services, which they weren't last time I looked *

Thanks for the clarification


*which in my mind was only a few months ago, but seeing as the covid era has flown past, as probably a few years ago .  Must be age creeping up

[Allenm]

It's not worth the hassle of risking £1000 fine and a criminal record unless you are 100% sure 

who knows ?

lots of fake news about if you need one or not 

It is really not difficult. https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

Why would you pay for something if you genuinely don't need it.

If you have the means to receive and therefore watch BBC output, then the onus is on you to prove that you don't.

Good luck with that.

No it is not! Where did you get that from?

You simply have to inform them that you don't require a licence via an online submission. Edit - you don't actually have to, but it should stem the flow of letters.

If they doubt you, it is up to them to prove otherwise, which they can only do either with your permission, or via a very seldom used search warrant.  All that needs doing is not having an aerial or satellite dish connected and no account for iplayer. so very easy to prove anyway.

All the information is available from official sources without the need to listed to shit on youtube or that bloke down the pub!