The TV liecense fee in Great Britain
I was just wondering how strongly enforce is it? Are the citizens normally pretty good about paying it and how can the tell if someone has a television and is not paying the fee?
shareMost people seem to pay up with little more than a bit of grumbling (you can pay it in monthly instalments rather than in one big £150 chunk - we just think of it as another monthly bill).
And it's very easy for them to check if someone hasn't paid: they have a huge database of every address in the country, so those that haven't paid up can easily be identified. The downside of this is that occasionally, even people who don't have a TV will get a visit from the "enforcer" (who is just a bureaucrat with a clipboard, not as sinister as it sounds!). But once they've confirmed you don't own a TV, or have no capability of receiving live television broadcasts, they'll leave you alone.
And if you have someone in your household who's over 75, you get it for free!
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