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We have TV licenses in Sweden too. The way they make people pay them are thus:
1) Making the basic assumption that every adult has a TV.
2) Sending out letters every once in a while to the adults that don't pay a TV license. If, like me, you still live with mom you just send a form back stating you live in a household that pays the license and give that license number. If you live on your own and don't have a TV or don't want to pay you either ignore the letter or send the form back stating you don't own a TV. Then you can expect a visit from the men in brown jackets.
They used the detector van mythos here too, but nobody falls for that any more. Swedish public TV isn't nearly as good as the BBC though.
We have another more annoying tax, namely the tape tax. It's a tax placed on every blank casette tape, video tape and CD sold that then supposedly goes to music artists. The idea is that they lose money because people copy records instead of bying them... agh, it's just stupid and annoying. Although I suppose I should be grateful they don't tax copier paper in the same manner. Yet.
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