Tv Licence Galway

traceyde

hI,
i GOT A VISIT FROM THE TV LICENCE INSPECTOR. I POSTED A QUESTION BUT ON THE WRONG FORUM (MYTHOLOGY) AND WAS ADVISED TO GET A TV LICENCE. i FOUND OUT IT WILL COST ME 160 EURO!!! ANYONE ELSE GET A VISIT FROM THE INSPECTOR.....ANY ADVICE APPRECIATED

biko

Firstly, you have CAPSLOCK on.
Secondly, you have to get a licence. Unfortunately but it's the law.
Which area of Galway are you in? In case there's a sweep going on.

danniemcq

and you can't try and be a smartarse and say the TV isn't yours it's the landlords because it doesn't matter a damn. whoever is living in the house at the time is in charge of the TV licence.

even if you put the tv in the attic or under the stairs if it's in the house you need a licence. it's a pain in the ass but if you get it for the year (you can't get it for x amount of months for some stupid reason) you can transfer the address if you move house

Sherifu

Advice: Buy a licence. :pac:

dafunk

<rant> If you don't get one they can prosecute and you can be fined 1200. I think it's a f&&king disgrace. It's scandalous to make people pay for a licence. Fair enough to pay to fund it if there's no advertising but advertising and a license is blatant thievery. Those licences are paying that talentless ugly smarmbag Pat Kenny 850 K a year.
</rant>

dafunk

traceyde wrote: »

hI,
i GOT A VISIT FROM THE TV LICENCE INSPECTOR. I POSTED A QUESTION BUT ON THE WRONG FORUM (MYTHOLOGY) AND WAS ADVISED TO GET A TV LICENCE. i FOUND OUT IT WILL COST ME 160 EURO!!! ANYONE ELSE GET A VISIT FROM THE INSPECTOR.....ANY ADVICE APPRECIATED

It'll cost you 160 euro every year.

Black_Knight

danniemcq wrote: »

and you can't try and be a smartarse and say the TV isn't yours it's the landlords because it doesn't matter a damn. whoever is living in the house at the time is in charge of the TV licence

Are you sure about this? I was pretty sure its up to whoever owns the TV. If I were move into a house and theres a TV there, id assume that the TV licence is paid. Fair enough, if i move into a house and bring in a TV, its probably safe to say theres no TV licence for that house.

vulcan57

I think you'll find that you still need a licence, even if you have a saterlite dish, antenna, or signed up for cable but no TV. The licence is not a TV licence as such but a TV Receiving licence which includes any equipment that can receive a TV Signal. The price of 160 Euro is a disgrace as I for one never watch RTE and, like what has already been mentioned, they still have the ads.

PopeBuckfastXVI

dafunk wrote: »

<rant> If you don't get one they can prosecute and you can be fined 1200. I think it's a f&&king disgrace. It's scandalous to make people pay for a licence. Fair enough to pay to fund it if there's no advertising but advertising and a license is blatant thievery. Those licences are paying that talentless ugly smarmbag Pat Kenny 850 K a year.
</rant>

Dafunk for President!

dafunk

WooHoo!

Free TVs for All!!

Bass Cadet

Posting a thread about TV licence on a Mythology website...brilliant

by the way, paying €160 for Pat the plank Kenny and more ads than Sky One? no thanks, i'll take my chances

TerrorFirmer

Get a tuner card for your pc/laptop and ditch the TV. As if they'd ever catch on...:)

dafunk

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Get a tuner card for your pc/laptop and ditch the TV. As if they'd ever catch on...:)

It's the way forward alright. Oh, alternatively just ditch the TV altogether and live off streaming and downloads. 4oD and the like seem to be getting more and more commonplace, unfortunately for me few of them are offering linux compatible software at this moment in time but there's plenty of video available online for windows users.

Pete4779

If I remove the Coax/TV part of my TV and make it so it cannot receive TV signals is it exempt?

It pissed me off to pay a license as I only use it for 360 and PS3 and as a computer screen for my laptop, and I don't have any NTL/cable subscription or have any channels.

Mrs OBumble

Sherifu wrote: »

Advice: Buy a licence. :pac:

Or get rid of your TV, it only rots the brain, anyway.

Anyone know if I'm supposed to have one if I have a TV card for a computer, but no actual TV set in the house?

gufcfan

traceyde wrote: »

I POSTED A QUESTION BUT ON THE WRONG FORUM (MYTHOLOGY)

How the hell did you manage to post it there?

gufcfan

JustMary wrote: »

Or get rid of your TV, it only rots the brain, anyway.

Anyone know if I'm supposed to have one if I have a TV card for a computer, but no actual TV set in the house?

The law refers to devices capable of receiving television pictures. I think the fact that there is a tv card in your PC is immaterial. If you have a PC monitor you need a licence.

witnessmenow

Its the owner of the tv that must supply the acquire the license.

A computer monitor is not really capable of receiving tv images on its own, i highly doubt they charge you on that.

You are ment to get a tv license for pc with a tv tuner. The inspector might not know much about pcs but if he knows your paying for sky or NTL he might cop on!

gufcfan

witnessmenow wrote: »

Its the owner of the tv that must supply the acquire the license.

An ex-colleague of mine was renting an apartment to 2 girls and they got a visit from the licence inspector. They rang my colleague straight after to tell him to pay it, because the TV was his. He is a real tight bastard and didn't want to pay it, but he didn't think he was liable for it in any case.

He investigated it and bought the licence himself in the end.

I dont know if he found out 100% if he had to, but I can be damn sure he wouldnt have paid it if he thought he didnt have to...

I'd tend to agree with you on that. The owner of the set should be liable. He allowed the girls use the TV, but that doesn't waive his responsibility in paying the licence.

dafunk

witnessmenow wrote: »

Its the owner of the tv that must supply the acquire the license.

A computer monitor is not really capable of receiving tv images on its own, i highly doubt they charge you on that.

You are ment to get a tv license for pc with a tv tuner. The inspector might not know much about pcs but if he knows your paying for sky or NTL he might cop on!

I don't think that NTL are allowed to give them this information though.

sosulio

witnessmenow wrote: »

Its the owner of the tv that must supply the acquire the license.

A computer monitor is not really capable of receiving tv images on its own, i highly doubt they charge you on that.

You are ment to get a tv license for pc with a tv tuner. The inspector might not know much about pcs but if he knows your paying for sky or NTL he might cop on!

Im pretty sure that is not the case! I took this from tv lisence website
"Terms and conditions. 1. Any person in occupancy at an address where a television set is held is legally responsible for the licensing of the television set regardless of ownership of either the premises or the set itself. "

s_carnage

Ya it's definitly up to the occupiers of the house to buy a TV licence, not the landlord. If the inspector comes around the prosecution will be taken on whoever is living in the house at the time as one of my friends found out a year back.

Now we laugh behind his back just like the add they had out last year!!!!!

padraig71

Get rid of your TV - that way you won't have to pay the licence or be looking over your shoulder, and you'll have more time for more worthwhile activities.

Manofthewest

Just don't answer the door in future before checking to see who it is!!!

If they don't have a name they can bring you to court!

traceyde

gufcfan wrote: »

How the hell did you manage to post it there?

I thought the "tv licence inspector" was an urban myth until i actually met one!!!! Scary!!:eek:

Sherifu

Good to see you found capslock. TV Licence is a pain in the ass. Have you decided what you're gonna do?

dafunk

I think we should all protest. Let's have a good ol fashioned riot.

Down with TV licences!!

But seriously ... Tracyde ... are you going ot get one? Once you get one once they have you for life because you're on their database, so every year you get a letter from them saying 'your license is now expired. please send us another 160 euro sucker'.

Everything in life is a gamble. Minimum of 650, maximum of 1200 euro fine if you get caught without one ... hmm. Pretty crappy but if you've got away with no tv license for a couple of years you're still a winner.

It's like paying for parking tickets.If you get caught once a year and get a fine for 50 quid then so what? If you'd paid for all those times you'd parked you'd have spent more.

traceyde

Sherifu wrote: »

Good to see you found capslock. TV Licence is a pain in the ass. Have you decided what you're gonna do?

Ya i found capslock!!! looks like i will have to fork out 160.......don,t fancy paying a fine of 600euro+
will hurt me bad to fork out 160........ i think will get rid of the damn tv after this.......

Sherifu

Gerry Ryan says thanks!

traceyde

Sherifu wrote: »

Gerry Ryan says thanks!

That really makes me feel better.!!!!.....not............... :mad: But tv is definately getting the door in the near future.....in all fairness if i dont pay now i will have to pay a hell of a lot more in fines......... So this will be my last contribution to Gerry,s and Paddy K,s salary.............:rolleyes:

Sherifu

Gerry Ryan's wife and kids say thanks then, better? Legal fees and seperation costs and what not.

traceyde

Sherifu wrote: »

Gerry Ryan's wife and kids say thanks then, better? Legal fees and seperation costs and what not.

Ya much better....curse on the tv licence....what next......licence for sunshine and fresh air!!:o

Krieg

I believe gufcfan is correct, a computer monitor can still be considered a tv, I have no source though. Just something I vaguely remember being told. Even if it isnt currently true, you can be damn sure it will shortly.

Oh and here's a pic of me feeding a troll



Edit: Legal discussion forum - computer = tv licence?
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=55379745#post55379745

Mrs OBumble

Just by comparison .. they got rid of the TV licence in New Zealand around 10 years ago: the compliance-costs of collecting 'em and debt-collecting fines and prosecuting non-payers outweighed the revenue collected, or so I'm told.

But before that, there were specific laws that let the TV licence people get purchase data from retailers ... and I'm sure they would have done cable-providers if cable had existed then (hmm, maybe Sky did, I can't quite remember). There were lots of cases of people moving into a new flat on Saturday, buying a TV on Sunday, and wondering how the inspector knew to pay a visit a week/month later.

(you think the retailer doesn't know who you are ... wrong, unless you paid in cash .. that Laser/Visa transaction had a great big thumbprint on it!)

I expect the same thing happens here ... let me guess, they could be working from lists of newly-registered tenancies, sold TVs, cable-providers, newly opened estates (there will be a city-council process that notifies this) ...I wonder what else ...

leeroybrown

I think the 'equipment capable of receiving a television signal' is that which tunes the signal as opposed to a dumb aerial, dish or cable. Technically this means that an aerial, dish or cable alone doesn't require a licence until a TV tuner is attached. Obviously, best of luck trying to explain why you pay the fee for NTL cable but don't attach a TV.

Also, a broken TV or one with a missing TV tuner is still defined as capable of receiving a TV signal by design so a licence is still required. Only tuner-less TVs that are bought by businesses for security/training purposes are exempt.

Bass Cadet

dafunk wrote: »

Everything in life is a gamble. Minimum of 650, maximum of 1200 euro fine if you get caught without one ... hmm. Pretty crappy but if you've got away with no tv license for a couple of years you're still a winner.

Shirley, you get a warning first? and they check up again to make sure you get it?

po0k

leeroybrown wrote: »

Obviously, best of luck trying to explain why you pay the fee for NTL cable but don't attach a TV.

Broadband.

workaccount

I lived with a fella and the inspector called round more than once. We only used the tv for watching dvds really.

When the inspector came he would go out and start ranting about why he would never have a tv or licence and the cost is an absolute disgrace etc. etc.

Funny. And you don't have to let them into your house if you don't want to.

leeroybrown

po0k wrote: »

Broadband.

Best of luck getting them to accept that if there is an analog signal coming in...

po0k

Return the digibox to NTL.
They still jip you out of your 20-30euro a month for mandatory market research/advertainment, but it's a valid reason to ahve an NTL subscription.
Just don't have any sort of tuner card.

PC monitor is not capable of receiving TV signals.
I'm fairly certain that modern TFTs can have their demodulators removed easily enough.
They're most likely all modular/socketed by design to ease localisation.

stevecrow74

Pete4779 wrote: »

If I remove the Coax/TV part of my TV and make it so it cannot receive TV signals is it exempt?

in a word... NO :eek::eek:

think of the likes of xtravision and other buisnesses that use a tv only for video presentations, even that have to buy a licence..

the whole law about tv licences should be changed for the better, they say it pays for improved programming, yet who in their right mind watches half of the stuff on rte 1, rte 2 and tg4 (tv3 is the only station that runs off its own advertising, the way it should be done)

i lived in a house out in salthill once that had a tv ariel on the roof(it belonged to next door) inspector came and we litterally dragged him around the house to prove to him we didnt have a tv and told him to look where the coax cable was going, the following week a letter in the post saying get a licence or else a fine will be imposed..:eek: and there wasnt a tv in the house (the rest of the inhabitants were crusties)

its just better to pay up and shut up than create a whole load of fuss and end up getting fined :mad:

green123

traceyde wrote: »

hI,
i GOT A VISIT FROM THE TV LICENCE INSPECTOR. I POSTED A QUESTION BUT ON THE WRONG FORUM (MYTHOLOGY) AND WAS ADVISED TO GET A TV LICENCE. i FOUND OUT IT WILL COST ME 160 EURO!!! ANYONE ELSE GET A VISIT FROM THE INSPECTOR.....ANY ADVICE APPRECIATED

so you were caught without a licence and didnt get a fine ?
you were just told to get a licence ?

dafunk wrote: »

Everything in life is a gamble. Minimum of 650, maximum of 1200 euro fine if you get caught without one ... hmm. Pretty crappy but if you've got away with no tv license for a couple of years you're still a winner.

It's like paying for parking tickets.If you get caught once a year and get a fine for 50 quid then so what? If you'd paid for all those times you'd parked you'd have spent more.

spot on

Sherifu

green123 wrote: »

so you were caught without a licence and didnt get a fine ?
you were just told to get a licence ?

They won't fine you if you get one usually. Their job is done once you pony up.