I have known of the existence and requirement but never really thought about it. Now I have just seen several videos on Youtube of police and "inspectors" entering people's homes to check for TVs. I just can't wrap my head around this. I can't understand it but that is because in all of the countries I have lived in none had this.
I mean, if you want people to pay why not just encrypt the signal like some channels do in other countries? And if it is going to be like just a tax on pretty much everybody why not just make it part of the general budget? That way you save all this collection effort and expense. And, really, police go into people's homes to search for TVs?
Does this exist in other countries?
Sweden just recently abolished the TV "reciever" licence, (payment was for the receiver part not the entire TV) for a tax based one.The reason was fewer and fewer watched the national broadcast also known among citizens as the
socialist propaganda canal (Sweden has private owned broadcasts as well). Gov including all the different parties from left to right (except SD) voted for a tax based TV because as was said to the unwashed grey masses
important to preserve democracy. Yes you heard right. Want more gov based BS?
The chance that a resident is not paying their TV tax is considered a crime of such level that it requires police visits to investigate? Really? Judges issue warrants on suspicion that someone has a TV?
When TV was licence fee based Gov had
Detection/bearing vans out on the land to try nail people who had a unpaid TV receiver, they ring on your door asks if you have a TV receiver, you reply you dont ,they ask if they may enter you apartment/house, you reply they may not, they reply we will come back later, you reply they are welcome back. End result they never show up again.
Point are, law prohibits them to enter your home without homeowners consent, nor would police ever bother , eventually proposed hypothesized crime just to small, yet your allowed to own a TV receiver for use to computer playing games they mumblyingly say, I.e you not watching Gov broadcast. So the whole process is pointless waste
if you know the law as a citizen.
When the detector van people (scoobydoo) came to visit me once i hadn't had a TV for decades, so why did they came?
Well, they dont drive around by chance no, what they do is looking into a list of people who haven't pay'd TV licence
for a while and then drop by to pursue their so called case.
Sometimes the make score most times they just a waste of taxpayers money after all they are just part of the
current regime in power propaganda outlet, often in Sweden the
retarded totalitarian socialists (dont think for a second the
totalitarian right wingers haven't used TV as their propaganda outlet when they where
in power). TV is just EVIL fake news!
So Sweden went from ashes to fire instead of ashes to water, i.e
ad paid TV as they do in commie China.