Irish Television License.

Royal Seahawk

Hey all, just looking for some info.

As it now stands i've received four letters warning me to pay my Tv License since Oct 1st. Not that pushed on paying it for a few different reasons, ie Colin and Jim Jim, Gerry Ryan ect ect...

Just wondering does anybody know how far An Post will take it. Will they actually end up bringing me to court over it, does anybody know if this has ever happened to anyone? I personally can't see anything happening other than a few more letters, bit i'd like to know if somebody has had a different experience...

Utopia Parkway

All I know is they will literally send you letters for months and months and months on end.......and send you about a dozen final warnings.

Random

Could you live with the shame?

It's it like a €1000 fine or something? All I remember is the ads really ..

AlmightyCushion

Random wrote: »

Could you live with the shame?

It's it like a €1000 fine or something? All I remember is the ads really ..

14 consecutive life sentences I believe. Totally deserved as well. TV license dodgers are scum of the highest order, worse than hitler and walt disney combined.

Pigman II

Random wrote: »

Could you live with the shame?

It's it like a €1000 fine or something? All I remember is the ads really ..

Interesting. But does the €1000 go to RTE tho? If its used elsewhere (eg to run methadone clinics or to give free housing to 20year-old women who already have 5kids from 5 different men or to give free legal aid to career criminals etc) then I think I'd still prefer to pay the fine than give the annual fee required to RTE.

Aidric

They speak english in Barbados?

Random

Info on fines here.

Penalties

Conviction for non-payment of a television licence (first offence) is a fine of €635.

If you are convicted a second time for not paying your television licence, you will be fined €1,268 and your television and signal equipment will be confiscated.

cmcsoft

€160 for a tv license......as if this country isn't enough off a rip off already

Pigman II

cmcsoft wrote: »

€160 for a tv license......as if this country isn't enough off a rip off already

The price is right. I just object to what is being done with it.

Mossy Monk

cmcsoft wrote: »

€160 for a tv license......as if this country isn't enough off a rip off already

That is quite cheap compared to other countries.

SEPT 23 1989

the Judge will sentence you to be an audience member of that show on Sunday
nights at 6.30p.m

jor el

Royal Seahawk wrote: »

Just wondering does anybody know how far An Post will take it. Will they actually end up bringing me to court over it, does anybody know if this has ever happened to anyone? I personally can't see anything happening other than a few more letters, bit i'd like to know if somebody has had a different experience...

It'll take a while, but they will prosecute. They involve the Gardai to inspect the premises and prove you have a TV. You'll then get a summons and you'll need to go to court. You'll need to pay a solicitor for this, and if you're lucky you'll only get a small fine. You'll then need to get a TV licence anyway, and if you don't you'll face the same thing again. If the judge is feeling so inclined, he can enforce the maximum fine, and if you don't, or can't, pay this, they can send you to jail for non-payment.

Yes people have been fined the maximum, and yes, people have actually gone to jail for not paying that, as crazy as it sounds.

We all have to pay it no matter how shit RTE are, so just pay the bloody thing.

AnonoBoy

They will prosecute or at least threaten it.

I know a guy who got a court summons. They rang him up and they settled on him paying the last three years licence fees (that's how long he'd lived in the house).