TV license

[Spacecadet]

I'm more than happy to pay my licence fee

Same here, the BBC helps this country maintain what is possibly the highest standard of broadcasting in the world.

[Zippy]

Another option is to disguise it by using an Active camouflage kit that bends light around the tv. A bit like Preditor with A.Schwarzenager.
Just remember to unplug it at night or it will suck your brains out through a straw

Just cover your telly in foil - it worked for me. I think my brain might have gone though.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I'm more than happy to pay my licence fee

Me too, and like you, I can spell Licence, too.

[NickFitz]

I'm more than happy to pay my licence fee

So am I. It's the law.

I've got no problem. I like channels with fewer advert breaks. The fee is chicken feed anyway.

Same here, the BBC helps this country maintain what is possibly the highest standard of broadcasting in the world.

What they said. Well worth ~38p a day.

To address contractor79's original point (such as it was) about "not liking the BBC" and therefore wanting to cheat the system: there are lots of things I don't like paying taxes for. However I do so as it's one of the responsibilities one incurs in return for the privilege of living in a civilised society.

If you don't like it, why not move to Somalia? I believe they are much more relaxed about enforcing civic duties over there.

[ratewhore]

Do TV detector vans actually exist? I've never seen one (although they're probaby disguised), and I've never known anyone to get caught by them.

They had one in that Cliff Richard film (The Young Ones?). It had an aerial and made loads of electronic type noises.

These days they have a big black monolithic computer, I saw it on the telly...


...or perhaps that's for car tax - I forget.

[TimberWolf]

How many civilised countries (so exclude the US) impose a TV licence / TV tax?

[Cyberman]

Same here, the BBC helps this country maintain what is possibly the highest standard of broadcasting in the world.

Yeah, I love the way Jonathan Ross helps to maintain their standards on 6 million a year !!

... and all those 78 year-old pensioners love him !!

[Coalman]

What they said. Well worth ~38p a day.

To address contractor79's original point (such as it was) about "not liking the BBC" and therefore wanting to cheat the system: there are lots of things I don't like paying taxes for. However I do so as it's one of the responsibilities one incurs in return for the privilege of living in a civilised society.

If you don't like it, why not move to Somalia? I believe they are much more relaxed about enforcing civic duties over there.

WHS

Nobody likes paying taxes, but jail is worse (another can of worms ....)

[expat]

What they said. Well worth ~38p a day.

To address contractor79's original point (such as it was) about "not liking the BBC" and therefore wanting to cheat the system: there are lots of things I don't like paying taxes for. However I do so as it's one of the responsibilities one incurs in return for the privilege of living in a civilised society.

If you don't like it, why not move to Somalia? I believe they are much more relaxed about enforcing civic duties over there.

Absolutely.


PS A TV Licence Fee is the norm in civilised countries; i.e. it is quite a "normal" tax, not a bizarre impostition that one might feel bound to oppose.

[NickFitz]

How many civilised countries (so exclude the US) impose a TV licence / TV tax?

Quite a few, it seems.

Also note such cases as The Netherlands, where the licence was abolished, but "...In order to pay for public television from government funds, income tax was increased."