BBC - take my license fee and do what you want with it? Really?

40p a day? you ****g skinflint 

It would only be 30p a day if the tax avoiders obeyed the law. Jail 'em all says I. Maybe hang a few as an example! Worse than bloody immigrants!

This 40p a day argument is bobbins. Basically the rich who can afford Sky etc have to fund the peasants who listen to radio and watch BBC1

BBC isnt impartial at all. Just look at their Sports coverage, stuff they have rights for gets amazing coverage whereas everything else just get the occasional mention. Dont see why the license fee still exists in 2015

The Bbc built a new HQ complete with a top class
Large Restaurant ..
To celebrate the opening of the new Multi million HQ
Paid for by licence fees, the bosses organised a slap up
meal for all the staff --
At an outside restaurant costing well into a 6 figure sum ..
Or more importantly --  over  1000 old ladies annual licence fees !!!!

I never knew old ladies had to licence themselves. How much does it cost?

£146 per year .
Or they set  the bailiffs and courts and prison on them .

New HQ cost £1,014 million .
A lot of Licence fees there !!

Terrible eh! I think you're angry cos you didn't get an invite to the nosh up.
As MrB pointed out 40p a day. What do you want for that.

old ladies don't have to pay if they are aged 75 years or over

Im happy for the conservatives to reduce the license fee, £146 is alot for BBC news.

The rest of its output is rubbish.

Cant understand why the BBC and Guardian still justify putting poor people in prison for not paying the TV tax.

Likewise, if the BBC is as good as the guardian claims, it should be fine to become subscription based  as people 'cant live without it' .

I found out why the guardian is a big BBC fan, the BBC is its biggest readership!

Cant understand why the BBC and Guardian still justify putting poor people in prison for not paying the TV tax.

they don't, the maximum fine for watching without a licence is £1000.

hth

And if you can't pay the fine what do you think happens?

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Fookin Jokers

And if you can't pay the fine what do you think happens?

you probably get extended payment terms

I'm currently in the process of declaring to TVL that I'll no longer be paying my licence fee and claiming refund.

Far too much "pish" on the box these days, imo.

^ "am" claiming refund,

".", not, ","

.

I think you've cleared that up nicely trilby

Thanks for the support, chaps.  One never knows quite who's watching

Their letters are rather threatening.
It makes you wonder why?

can understand the arguments and certainly think the BBC has to be subject to the utmost scrutiny to ensure the licence fee is used prudently but personally feel it will be a desperate day if the BBC is kicked into touch and we're left only with commercial tv and radio...listen to the radio a lot but havent listened to non-BBC station in a decade

May 17, 2015 -- 10:01AM, MisterBadger wrote:

Cant understand why the BBC and Guardian still justify putting poor people in prison for not paying the TV tax.they don't, the maximum fine for watching without a licence is £1000.hth

They do,
please google search, over 200,000 cases a year in the courts over unpaid tv licenses, and an average of 50 people a week imprisoned for non payment, with jail terms of 28 days (but normally only serving 7-14 days).

The BBC is a disgrace for wanting to continue putting poor people in prison for not paying the tv tax.

according to a report in todays paper,around 1000 pw are no longer paying the licence because they watch online,so unless the rules are changed i guess we're heading towards a subscription service of some description.

sorry 1000 households per day

Are you sure its the BBC who collect your licence fee. I don't know because mine is always paid so I've never had any dealings with them.
The BBC should just point out the offenders to the Excise men...destroy all the televisions in offending residences!

The TV licence fee is a tax [6] collected by the BBC and primarily used to fund the radio, television and online services of the BBC itself. This type of tax (ie. one raised for a particular defined purpose) is known as a hypothecated tax.[7] Licence Fee collection is the responsibility of the BBC's Finance and Business division.[8]


The BBC is the TV Licensing Authority in the UK
Although the money is raised for its own use, the BBC does not directly use the collected fees. The money received is first paid into the Government's Consolidated Fund. It is subsequently included in the 'vote' for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in that year's Appropriation Act, and passed back to the BBC for the running of the BBC's own services (free from commercial advertisements). The money also finances the BBC to produce programming for S4C and the BBC World Service as well as to run BBC Monitoring at Caversham.

For cricket fans TMS is worth the license fee times 10. Or it was. Graham Swann turned up recently so it's probably worth x 5. But for non cricket fans I'm not sure as I don't watch it, or listen otherwise.

Dav_Vin talking plonk.

You cannot go to prison for non-payment of your licence fee, but you can be jailed for not paying a fine imposed as punishment for not paying for a licence, and in 2012, 50 people were imprisoned, up from 30 in 2009. Of those, 49 were given a sentence of less than three months; one person was given a sentence of somewhere between three and six months.

Court fines.

If you don`t want to pay.

A) Do not give the Capita agent who knocks on your door your name.
B) Do not let the Capita agent in to your house.
C) Don not admit or sign anything.

an average of 50 people a week imprisoned for non payment, with jail terms of 28 days (but normally only serving 7-14 days).

utter bollox, more like 50 people a year - down from 200 in the 1990s btw - agreed, still 50 too many but as from next year that will no longer be possible under the terms of the new charter anyway.

It would all work so much better if Capita's agents had been given the same powers as the Customs and Excise Officers whose job they are doing.
There's no point sending round a money collector with no teeth! Give 'em the right to enter and consficate.

my water costs £24 a fortnight.  my licence £5.50.    I resent one but the other is a total bargain.

1/7 water is the bargain?

TV LICENSING
DARLINGTON
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Tel   :     0300 790 6030
Email:    customer-relations@tvlicensing.co.uk
Our Ref: monkey nuts

 

Dear Mr Trilby22

 

Thank you for your recent email, which has been recorded under your complaint reference xxxxxxxxx. Please use this number if you wish to contact us again.



We’re grateful for this information you’ve provided in regards to your Direct Debit being cancelled.

   

I can confirm that your TV Licence has now been cancelled. However, as this has only recently been done, there’s a small chance a further letter has been prepared for posting if this arrives, please ignore it.

   

As you’ve stated there’s no TV at the property, I’ve also registered this for you and we’ll cease contact for two years.

   

TV Licensing don’t permanently stop writing to any address as circumstances change over time, and the occupier may change. We’ll get in touch after this time to confirm if you still live at the address and that your circumstances haven’t changed.

   

We’ve a responsibility to make sure that everyone in the  UK   who needs a licence has one and we visit some of these addresses to check that one isn’t required. It’s unfortunately necessary for TV Licensing to visit homes to confirm there’s no television being used as, when we made contact on these visits, nearly a fifth of people were found to require a licence. If we visit your address and confirm that you don’t need a licence, we can stop contact for another two years from the date of the visit.

   

An automatic refund has also been arranged for £:). This should be in your bank account in due course.

   

I hope this clarifies the situation and thank you for taking the time to contact us.   

 

Yours sincerely etc.

I'm not sure what that letter is supposed to be. Is it a response to something that you sent them? Is it a joke? What is it about?

It's an e-mail I received from TVL today ... obviously with my personal details adjusted.

That's fair enough. It makes more sense now.

No flies on you naydam.

Yet another post that I don't understand. Any chance of a bit of a clue as to what is meant?

You could try reading the thread from the beginning.
That would be a start.

Nope. Just tried that with your comment in mind and I'm afraid I'm no wiser. I'm gonna need a clue...a proper explanation might be easier all round.

trilby22  • May 17, 2015 5:47 PM BST 
I'm currently in the process of declaring to TVL that I'll no longer be paying my licence fee and claiming refund.
Far too much "pish" on the box these days, imo

Is that any better.

The BBC lost a fortune when they sacked my good friend Jeremy Clarkson.

Yet they pay the obese ugly racist Diane Abbott out of my licence fee.

What profit dos the fat pig generate for them?

What annoys me is,

On the breakfast programme they have about 6-7 minutes of sports news usually football, fair enough its popular, then they rattle for about a minute about rugby fecking league , how many people watch this outside of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and other under privileged areas, what about mass participation sports such as Angling etc, I couldn't give a flying fig that Wakefield trinity lost at the weekend , and as for their coverage of Cheltenham compared to aintree its cringeworthy, and I'm only talking about the result etc from the previous day, the gold cup is lucky to get a 10 second slot.

they still have access to football & r.league albeit in a recorded highlight fashion so i suppose it makes sense for them to promote it.as far as racing is concerned the only peep your likely to get from the bbc is if a horse gets killed in a high profile race.

Akabula. I still don't see what you are getting at. You said "No flies on you, naydam" and I just don't know how I'm supposed to connect that with Trilby's post.
I'm afraid I've totally missed it. Right over my head, I guess. You're going to have to spell it out for me.

I didn't say that naydam it was Angel Gabrial but I think he meant all pedants should be euthanized or something like that.

Oops! No wonder it didn't make any sense! Humb apols (I think I just invented that!   ).
I reckon that you must mean when I asked what it is about. He likes his surveys does Kenny. He has two going at the moment. I noticed some irate posts on another thread about treatment of animals.