It's true in principle. I didn't realise you had to post pages of small print and disclaimers, which would divert from the point of the post:
If you want to watch TV in the UK, you need to pay for a TV license. You know that very well.
That's quite simply false. Nobody is forcing you to watch the BBC, nor pay for it.
If you don't wish to pay to be robbed, you may block out BBC from your receiver (most likely a digibox these days) and you will therefore not have to pay for such a service.
You pay for your TV subscription, you pay for your TV. If you wish to be subscribed to the BBC too, THEN you also pay for that subscription in the form of the so-called ''Licence Fee''.
There have been some, more worryingly, likening this to Tax Avoidance, or even Tax Evasion, but these are completely different things. It is not a Tax and it's a dangerous conflation to make.
Whilst the BBC does also receive funding from our tax pot (as does C4), this is unrelated to the licence fee which is a subscription to a service and has nothing to do with our Tax System in any way, shape, or form. It is also completely optional, in that you may opt out of those channels, and only pay for those actually worth a dime.
Screw the paedophilic, morally corrupt, biased, and deplorable company that is the so-called British Broadcasting Corporation.