Ha! I doubt that. But no worries unless you decide to move to the UK. Then just to be sure, they’ll probably send a detection van around.
Posted on 11/22/2025 2:59:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The BBC lost more than £1bn through licence fee evasion and cancellation last year despite making two million enforcement visits to people’s homes.
Visits to unlicensed homes in 2024-25 increased by 50 per cent on the previous year but the BBC said it “has become harder to get people to answer their doors”.
One in eight users now evades payment despite using the BBC, at a cost to the corporation of £550m.
According to the BBC’s annual report, the number of TV licences fell by around 300,000 between March 2024 and March 2025.
In total, 3.6 million households now say they do not have a licence because they do not need one, at a potential cost of £617m, according to the Commons public accounts committee, bringing the potential combined lost income to £1.1bn.
The committee said that the BBC was not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee.
“Declining household participation and rising evasion has not been successfully tackled, and BBC users not purchasing a licence is unfair to the vast majority of households who do pay theirs,” it said.
The BBC’s funding model has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks after The Telegraph’s investigation into the broadcaster’s bias.
Earlier this month, it was revealed how footage in a Panorama documentary was edited to exaggerate Donald Trump’s role in the Capitol riots.
Tim Davie, the BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News, resigned after more revelations in The Telegraph about biased reporting.
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, said his party would change the law to strip the corporation of the licence fee, describing the current funding model as “completely unacceptable”.
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They don’t use the BBC. It’s just having a tv, even if you just use that tv for video games or streaming movies, that it is assumed you watch the BBC.
The Crown forcing his subjects to pay for propaganda used against them.
The BBC TV focuses on US news and Trump to keep from reporting news about Britain.
I don’t watch BBC. I swear I don’t.
The tax is on any TV that is used for live viewing. The source does not matter. Live on YouTube is covered too, for example.
Yes. The assumption is that you watch the BBC if you have a tv. That’s how they justify it.
“It’s just having a tv”
Nope.
A licence is required to receive ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, satellite, or cable”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
The King has nothing to do with the Communications Act or the TV license fee. It resulted from an act of Parliament - you know, that body of representatives that the people elect.
At last one can cancel in the UK . In Japan the NHK channel is received automatically and even if one doesn’t watch it one is expected to pay . We don’t but they come regularly attempting to get us to pay . We have ignored them for years but it is just a matter of time before the government institutes a new policy and forces folks to fork over the dough by some method .
That was what was explained to me as to why they justify the tax.
All the rules are around that simple premise that everybody watches the BBC if they have a tv.
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why doesn’t BBC just cut them off ???
With so many options, and their obvious bias against half this country...half the country doesn't watch their garbage...yet Kimmel et al make $15M+/per to spew sewage.
Television licensing fee in Formerly Great Britain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
It’s comforting to know that blind people get a 50% discount on the TV fee.
The beginning of the end was when they kicked the three guys off Top Gear
Let me guess...the tax collectors avoid the Muslim neighborhoods.
A large computer screen would do.
A lot of legally blind people retain a good deal of vision.
And most of the blind can hear.
Ha! I doubt that. But no worries unless you decide to move to the UK. Then just to be sure, they’ll probably send a detection van around.
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