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TV licence / dead dog

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  • 10-03-2016 10:46am
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    rs500ff
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭


    The TV licence inspector knocked on the door of the apartment the other night. He asked if I had a TV and I said yes.
    I qualified this by informing him that the TV was there from a previous tenant and does not work.
    I know these guys here a lot of stories but what I said was true.
    I am not signed up to any provider or have saorview etc nor have I ever been.
    I genuinely do not watch TV and I have never owned owned a TV.
    Today I received a notice of legal proceeding in my name plus a demand for the licence.

    This to me sounds like paying a canine licence for a dog found dead in my back garden.


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    #2
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Not at all. If you have equipment capable of receiving a TV signal, you are liable to pay a license. This would include an old vcr stuffed in the attic, even if you didn't have a TV to play it on.

    If you don't want to pay a license fee, chuck the TV in the bin.


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    rs500ff
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭rs500ff


    i have, I threw it out that evening.
    What can I do?


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Not a lot. At the time the inspector called, you were in breach. Argue your case if you like, but be prepared for a 'too bad. Pay the fine'.


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    PeterTheEighth
    Registered Users Posts: 3,930 ✭✭✭PeterTheEighth


    About 15 years ago I lived in a place in South Dublin, bit of a dive, and the TV would not work. It came on and stayed blue screen. TV man called around, and asked if I had a TV. I said "yeah, but it doesnt work". He asked to take a look, so I let him in and he foostered around with it for a while.

    I offered him a tenner if he could fix it, but he choose to ignore my butter knife sharp wit, and told me that we would not have to get a license.


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    endacl wrote: »
    Not a lot. At the time the inspector called, you were in breach.
    That is arguable, as he said it was not working.

    I think the law does have some bit about being "repairable" so you still need a licence. But I reckoned this could be to close a loophole where people could simply take the fuse out of the plug and declare it broken.

    I have heard of people taking out tuners or breaking them on purpose so it functions like a monitor.


    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer_affairs/media/tv_licences.html
    If your household, business or institution possesses a television or equipment capable of receiving a television signal, you are required by law to have a television licence. Even if the television or other equipment is broken and currently unable to receive a signal, it is regarded as capable of being repaired so it can receive a signal and you must hold a licence for it

    My plasma TV has no tuner, it has a slot to take one so I wondered if this would then be considered to be a "capable of being repaired". There has go to be some stage where it is not considered repairable.


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