How Can I legally stop paying BBC TV Licence - Do not watch live tv or any streaming

[linzie]

How can I legally stop paying the BBC TV Licence - I don't watch live tv or any streaming at all.

 

DWhat steps do I need to take, as I have received a BBC TV licence reminder and need to inform the BBC I no longer have a watch live tv of any kind or any streaming on any device.

[dx100uk]

Yes you can use their website 

 

You'll get literally 100's of scary letters I'm upto 88 so far 

 

ignore everything.and no one has the power to enter your home, esp not silly tvl officers, they have zero legal powers 

 

Tell them to do one ...tell them leave your property ...close the door .

 

Dx

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jaycee113]

Go here: 

 

About you - TV Licensing ™

WWW.TVLICENSING.CO.UK

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Welcome to TV Licensing. Use this site to access a range of information about TV Licensing in the UK, including methods of payment and details of television licence regulations.

 

Fill out the form and make a declaration for two years. After two years they will ask you to do the same again.

 

[Man in the middle]

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 After two years they will ask you to do the same again.

 

Which is a request you are perfectly free to ignore. You don't have to "declare" that you don't need a TV licence. You simply don't buy one.

[jaycee113]

You can ignore them at any time if you wish to do so. Neither do you have to buy a licence. Of course, you then invite their attention. They will write their threatening letters and you will eventually be door stepped. You don't have to let their agent in when they call. They will go away but keep on coming back. If you can dispense with all of that hassle by filling out an online form every 2 years why would you do otherwise?

[hightail]

I found that filling out their form invited attention.  Like all debt collectors they seem to regard any communication as an invitation to bully.  Once I ignored them they bothered me for a bit and then gave up. 

[Bazooka Boo]

Just ignore them, don't respond to any of their lame missives, if, and it is a big IF, one of their clowns knocks your door, laugh and shut the door.

 

There are a standard 5 letters they like to spit out, each one with a more desperate tone and empty threats, when you get to number five, their computer reverts back to letter one and the whole pointless cycle starts again, collect them, use them as hamster bedding, or start fires with them, just never respond or pay their out of touch ''fee!''

[unclebulgaria67]

My experience with this.

 

Decided not to buy a licence and say nothing.  Many letters about visits to check on me. Then about 3 visits to see if I was watching live TV.  Did not speak to them, but they put a note through the door.  They appeared to always visit around 7pm in the evening, which I guess may be the time people sit in front of their TV's ?

 

So I decided to just go onto the TV Licensing website and declare that I did not watch live TV so did not need a licence.  Once I did this they sent a letter saying that they may still visit to check and they will review after 2 years.  Did not receive very many letters after this and no visits to my knowledge.

 

 

[brassnecked]

If one ever came to the door and you find are a TVL Goon, say nothing and close the door, they are powerless, and the letter's will keep coming if you don't repond the second cycle likely will not be to you but to The Legal Occupier.  You are under no obligation to contact or deal with TVL in any way shape or form.

 

Plenty of information about their shenanigans here:

TV Licensing

TV-LICENSING.BLOGSPOT.COM

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Your unofficial guide to television licence rules, regulations, loopholes and enforcement in the UK.

 

[Homer67]

You'll know if it's a TV License sales rep at your door by their unkempt appearance and refusal to reveal who they are. They will instead keep repeating the name of who they believe to be the occupant and keep asking you to confirm that's you.

 

Never reveal who you are and tell them to leave and close the door. 

[jaycee113]

"You'll know if it's a TV License sales rep at your door by their unkempt appearance and refusal to reveal who they are. They will instead keep repeating the name of who they believe to be the occupant and keep asking you to confirm that's you."

 

Not to mention the Vauxhall banger rusting away in the street!

 

 

[brassnecked]

So raise a phone and say smile for the YouTube video, they usually leg it rapido then.  But best policy just say nothing and close the door.

[The GodMother]

This person has been having fun with TVL since 2006. 
 

Letters from BBC Television Licensing/intro

WWW.BBCTVLICENCE.COM

 

I basically wrote to them telling them l will not be paying for the license as l did not need it. I do not accept anyone at my door without a appointment and l dont want to make a appointment with them and telling them l will consider that they have trespassed if they do tur up. Not had any license since 2007.