BBC bosses spent nearly £3,000 A DAY chasing licence fee dodgers – costing the taxpayer £9m
BBC chiefs last year spent £9.25million on sending 34million letters demanding licence fee payments.
That works out at 111,959 enforcement notes each working day.
And the figure is likely to rise even higher after the BBC — led by director-general Tim Davie — pledged to crack down on the over-75s who have not yet paid up after their free licences were removed.
The total post bill, revealed by a Freedom of Information request, would cover the cost of giving £159 licences to more than 58,000 of them.
John O’Connell, of campaigners TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “People are being chased for an ever-more expensive TV tax when hard-up households are struggling to make ends meet.
“Heavy-handed enforcement like this shows why the licence fee has to go.”
A TV Licensing spokesman said: “These letters generate more funds than they cost to send, so more money can be spent on programmes and services.”
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The Sun Says
WHEN the BBC next pleads poverty, remember how it spent £9million in a year solely on hounding hard-up folk for cash.
Many are OAPs, unable or unwilling to pay since the Beeb shamefully refused to continue over-75s’ free licences.
This compulsory tax on our TVs is a crumbling relic from a bygone age. An absurdity in an era, long established now, of voluntary subscriptions to Netflix and the like.
The BBC must lose the licence and be forced to redesign its funding and output.
Meanwhile it must stop harassing old folk with menacing demands — and spend the savings on better shows.