Tesco's informed tv licence were i live

Yep.

I bought a portable tv aerial and more recently a digibox for the family room and they asked for my address and whether i was the TV license holder.

I guess anybody buying TV products must have a TV so it's an easy place for them to start a license check.
 
Nikon_Bob said:
You could have a TV sat in the corner of your lounge that hasn't been switched on for years but as long as it is capable of being used then you have to have a licence.
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This mistaken idea is one which the Licencing people go to great lengths to cultivate. Ownership of a TV - connected to an aerial or not - does not require a licence. The only way you can be prosecuted for not having a licence is by being caught in the act of watching television.

Having trawled through many web pages on the topic, I also have my own evidence. A while ago I took care of a friends flat while she was backpacking around Australia. Shortly after her departure her TV licence expired. On her return 3 months later she renewed it, from the current date. Not long after she received a letter from TVL telling her she had made a mistake and to amend the licence start/expiry date to run from her expired licence date. I replied on her behalf, explaining where she had been for 3 months and there was no way she was going to be paying a licence fee for it. They replied apologising profusely and said the new licence date was correct. So, ownership and connection of an aerial is not a requirement for a licence.

You can read to your heart's content everything here:

http://www.jifvik.org/tv/

http://www.marmalade.net/lime/

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
 
MisterE said:
This mistaken idea is one which the Licencing people go to great lengths to cultivate. Ownership of a TV - connected to an aerial or not - does not require a licence. The only way you can be prosecuted for not having a licence is by being caught in the act of watching television. ..etc.
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Yes, the licence specifically states that it is for using the equipment.

Most prosecutions follow users being conned into admitting TV use without a licence and allowing TV livence staff into their house.
Last info I had on the detector vans for NI & Scotland was that they had been lying in PO yard in Glw and had not moved for years.
The policy is simply to pester everyone not listed as having a licence.
 
This has been legal for years now - certainly when I last bought a TV in the UK back in 1993 it was - I gave my Dad's address as the Barracks then was exempt - no longer: all individual soldiers have to have TV licences - even those stationed overseas in Germany or Cyprus as those bases are classed as UK for tax purposes... i.e. we still pay UK tax and NI even though we're abroad...

As we get BFBS piped into our rooms/quarters/messes, we pay UK TV licence rates...
it has to be taped in a clear plastic sleeve to the back of the TV so that it's clearly visible if the TV licence people do a snap inspection...which they do from time to time.
 
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Arkady said:
it has to be taped in a clear plastic sleeve to the back of the TV so that it's clearly visible if the TV licence people do a snap inspection...which they do from time to time.
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It's nice of them to make the effort to visit you!


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
It's nice of them to make the effort to visit you!


Steve.
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I think they just know how many of us body-swerve the whole TV licence thing and do occasional swoops to collect fines...
When I was at Uxbridge in 2006 (and away in Afghanistan again) they raided the camp with the Station Commander's approval and about 500 people were caught out...both singlies in SLA and families living on 'The Patch'...
 
Nobody has come to check on you in the 'Stan then? :D
 
Arkady said:
I think they just know how many of us body-swerve the whole TV licence thing and do occasional swoops to collect fines...
When I was at Uxbridge in 2006 (and away in Afghanistan again) they raided the camp with the Station Commander's approval and about 500 people were caught out...both singlies in SLA and families living on 'The Patch'...
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Typical of this government. They won't give you the proper eqiupment to do the job you do, payout (if your lucky) measly compensation to soldiers sufferring horrific injuries and loss of limbs then they steal the money out your pockets just because you watch a bit telly when your not being shot at or blown up.

If I was 30 years younger I'd emigrate.
 
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