Rejected petition Stop the BBC charging compulsory taxes and move to subscription service

The general public are being forced to pay for services they don’t use enforced with court fines. It is time the BBC changed to a subscription service in line with other broadcasting companies and stop criminalization for not paying for unused services.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

End the TV licence and sell the BBC: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614239

Abolish the requirement for BBC non-viewers to have a TV licence: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/621917

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 29 August 2022
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.