Students ! Save £135.50 every year !
Do not buy
a TV LICENCE
until you have read this !
You will
get lots of threatening letters from TV Licensing (TVL), trying to force you to
buy a TV Licence.
£135.50 is
a lot of money (about 60 pints of lager) !
Don’t pay unless you really want to !
You do not
have to reply to letters or phone calls from TVL, whether you have a TV or not.
You do not
have to let “TV Licensing Officers” into your house / room. They have no right of entry.
You do not
have to say anything to them, even to confirm your identity.
Even
though they use the word “Officer”, they are definitely NOT like policemen -
they are just employees of a private company called Capita – do not be afraid
of them !
The best
way to avoid paying is to say nothing.
Do not respond at all to any of their letters / phone calls / visits.
Put it in
the bin ….. Put the phone down …. Don’t answer the door ! Do not say who you are. Do not say or sign anything.
TVL
prosecutions for not having a TV Licence depend on -
- either people owning up – “It’s
a fair cop” – DO NOT OWN UP !
- or someone from TVL seeing your
TV – DO NOT LET THEM SEE THE TV !
NO EVIDENCE = NO PROSECUTION !
Ignore
threats of search warrants. They are
never used in practice.
These are
expensive to arrange, and a magistrate would need to see some initial evidence
that you have a TV.
TV
Detector Vans do not exist – it is all made up ! They are just vans with “TV DETECTOR VAN” on
the side …. clever stuff, eh ! No one has ever been prosecuted using
evidence from TV Detector Vans.
No-one has
ever been prosecuted for watching TV over the internet, or using a mobile
phone.
If you buy
a TV, you will be asked for your name & address by the retailer. This is to send to TV Licensing, for them to
check that you have a TV Licence. Always
give a false address. This may have to
be a real address, since they may ask for a postcode and a house number, tp put into a database.
If you give an address that does not exist, they will say, “Computer
says No”.
If you
move house / flat, do not tell TV Licensing.
For more
info, see www.tvlicensing.biz
(there is a special page for students) or www.savethepound.fsnet.co.uk/tvl.htm
Happy viewing ! From “