What will eventually happen if I don't pay my TV license?

[AfricanTech]

Been there, done that. The "collections" resumed after 6 or 7 months. I used to leave the phone on the table and walk away

Many years ago (and I mean many) I had a valid license but was being hounded like you - I took their letter, my proof of payment, fed through a fax machine and taped the ends together - left it running overnight....

They never bothered me again

 

[LCBXX]

Nothing at all

Despite me paying my licence every year since 1976, the SABC 4 years ago decided I had not paid. They phone me at least 4 or 5 times a year. Reciting the current licence receipt does nothing. They are thick as 2 bricks and disorganised

I recognise the number now. I answer the phone and tell them I am the housekeeper, Mr XXX is away in France for 6 months. This works

See my earlier post. When you die, they'll claim your outstanding TV licence fees from your estate. They'll get their money eventually; the TV-licence rules were drafted by the previous establishment, not the current incompetent one.

 

[Lupus]

How to cancel and stop paying your TV licence

How to cancel and stop paying your TV licence Many people are not using their televisions to receive an SABC signal, or any other broadcast television signal, which means they can cancel their TV licence.

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so much different stories out there

Yup, but I know it's only a once off fee, a buddy has had a mecer monitor for years and he's also only had like one visit.

 

[Wolvyreen]

See my earlier post. When you die, they'll claim your outstanding TV licence fees from your estate. They'll get their money eventually; the TV-licence rules were drafted by the previous establishment, not the current incompetent one.

Yh but I'm not planning on dying anytime soon

 

[CamiKaze]

Just ignore them.

 

[LCBXX]

Yh but I'm not planning on dying anytime soon

Just ignore them.

You're going to pay eventually, no matter what you do.

 

[CamiKaze]

You're going to pay eventually, no matter what you do.

Never in my life have I seen some TV license dude coming to my house.

 

[Wolvyreen]

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broa...to-prison-for-not-paying-your-tv-licence.html

Found this article. Guess nothing will happen because they don't have the resources capable of actually dealing with the mass amount of people not paying.

This article states that you cannot be blacklisted for not paying because the SABC is not a credit provider.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broa...tv-licence-and-then-the-attorneys-called.html

 

[LCBXX]

Never in my life have I seen some TV license dude coming to my house.

They'll claim against your deceased estate.

 

[Wolvyreen]

Never in my life have I seen some TV license dude coming to my house.

I think what LCBXX means is that even if you die, they will take the money from your estate so you end up paying regardless of what you decide!

 

[Wolvyreen]

They'll claim against your deceased estate.

but isnt that ONLY if you don't have a valid last will and testament!?? ONLY THEN does the government get involved from with your estate? or am I wrong?

 

[CamiKaze]

So how do I check if I am registered to some body that holds this tv license information?

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Never in my life have I seen some TV license dude coming to my house.

I did, when we were kids in the 80s, I still remember it was 2 white dudes, looked scary

 

[LCBXX]

but isnt that ONLY if you don't have a valid last will and testament!?? ONLY THEN does the government get involved from with your estate? or am I wrong?

Wrong, regrettably.

 

[Lupus]

Never in my life have I seen some TV license dude coming to my house.

They did in the 80s, we had to "hide" the TV

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

They'll claim against your deceased estate.

they can try, how do they not know that i am already dead? or have immigrated
or just a drunk hobo on the streets like @Nick333

 

[LCBXX]

they can try, how do they not know that i am already dead? or have immigrated
or just a drunk hobo on the streets like @Nick333

I've heard stories about them claiming against deceased estates and brushed it off as scare-mongering. My dad-in-law apparently didn't pay his for 16-odd years and literally the first claim submitted against his deceased estate was from the SABCs debt-collecting lawyers; a 5-figure amount as I understand it.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

I've heard stories about them claiming against deceased estates and brushed it off as scare-mongering. My dad-in-law apparently didn't pay his for 16-odd years and literally the first claim submitted against his deceased estate was from the SABCs debt-collecting lawyers; a 5-figure amount as I understand it.

sheesh, good to know

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

So you reckon I should just ignore all these threats of attorneys etc?!?

I mean, I don't even have a dish or aerial and haven't had one for 8 years. Why the hell should I pay these idiots ANYTHING AT ALL when they can't even run Eskom, SAA, SABC, ANC, the Water Crisis, our police force, our military is useless and the list just goes on and on and on and on and on....

I am so gatvol paying them and paying them and yet you see all these squatters with dishes on their houses and they don't pay a cent for TV licenses!

It's ricidulous!

Just ignore it...they literally cannot do anything to you.

I haven't paid for 7 years. They tried for the last few years and eventually gave up.

Please don't worry about nonsense like this...the fact the no one has ever been convicted of anything or been blacklisted (WTF that even means) for not paying for a TV license says it all.

 

[Moosedrool]

We all pay. Whether we like it or not:

SABC to get R1.1 billion cash bailout in March

The public broadcaster, the SABC, is expected to get the remaining R1.1 billion of its R3.2 billion bailout by the end of next month, the National Treasury said on Wednesday.

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