gaijinpunch wrote:wagyl wrote:And two responses: a business is not exempt from the license fee while a residence must pay it: both are liable. Unless the collection staff are separate for the two, I don't know how strategy 1 has any positive effect.
I don't claim to know that, but I know at two offices I had in two separate locations simply said, "Sorry, this is an office". I'm sure they took that as "we have no TV" and let it be.
Yup, business pay the fee too. And certainly more than households. I once got the nhk guy for me alone at the clinic when he came to check the number of TV. And the face he made when I told him it was deregistered as a business and was now only a house with one family was telling.
He had to give me the paperwork to fill for household registration, instead of business...