They didn't believe me!

Here in France I have to pay taxes, and if we have a television, we have to pay a TV tax. (116€ a year) I don't have a television, so when I declare my income, I have to tick a box to say that I don't have a television.

And this year, it seems that they didn't believe me :P I found this in my letter-box one day:


It says that someone came by that morning when I was at class, to check whether I really didn't have a television. At the bottom of the page was a form that I had to fill in and send back to them. In the letter the mentioned that if I have a television, I could tell them now, and pay the TV tax without getting fined. Hehe, that would be for people who lied on their income tax declaration and are having second thoughts...

No one ever came to check this before...so I guess they only check for some people? (and hope they scare enough people, or catch some...) I heard from a friend that someone he knows bought a television just to watch videos (and not for public television, 'cos that's what the tax is for), and he had to take the TV to a shop to have them take out the parts used to receive the TV signal, so that he wouldn't need to pay the tax.