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to 160 per person 2026 117 118 119 people with low incomes and under the age of eighteen years are exempt from the tax 120 residents of åland did not have to pay the tax until 2020 but have been paying a media tax since 2021 which is currently 2026 at 128 euros per year 121 france edit until 2022 a broadcasting licence fee contribution à l audiovisuel public funded radio france and france télévisions 122 people under the age of 21 under 25 and in full time education and those who had a household income below a certain threshold were exempt from the fee the fee was abolished in 2022 and replaced with direct funding from the french treasury 123 12 gibraltar edit until 2006 television licence fees provided funds to the gibraltar broadcasting corporation gbc 124 125 the licence fee was scrapped due to the low amount of fees 126 even before the abolition of the licence fee the majority of gbc s funding came as a grant from the government hungary edit in hungary licence fees nominally exist but since 2002 residential fees have been paid from the state budget 127 this means that funding for magyar televízió and duna tv comes directly from taxation commercial venues such as hotels and bars also had their fees paid between 2002 and 2007 but since then they have required a payment per television set hong kong edit hong kong previously had a radio and television licence fee for radio television hong kong rthk and rediffusion television costing 36 hong kong dollars per year rthk is now funded by the hong kong government iceland edit the television licence fee for iceland s state broadcaster rúv was abolished in 2007 and replaced with a poll tax of 22 200 kr from everyone who pays income tax regardless of whether they use television and radio the tax must be paid only by persons between the ages of 16 and 69 128 india edit india introduced a radio receiver licence system in 1928 for all india radio air akashvani television licensing began in 1956 57 in 1976 public television was separated from air as a separate company doordarshan in the 1970s and 1980s radio licences cost inr 15 per year and television licences cost inr 50 the wireless licence inspector from the post office was authorised to check every house and shop for a wireless licence book and to issue penalties or seize the receiving equipment for non payment in 1984 the licensing system was withdrawn air and doordarshan are both funded by the government of india and by income from advertising indonesia edit a radio tax for rri funding was introduced in 1947 129 during the indonesian national revolution the television fee was introduced soon after tvri started broadcasting in 1962 the radio tax was abolished in the 1980s citation needed the television fee continued into the 1990s its abolition started after public protests about the company that collected the fee which was run by the indonesian president s son 130 but areas such as bandung and surabaya continued to have a television fee throughout the 1990s 131 132 a broadcasting fee indonesian iuran penyiaran was included in legislation in 2002 but has not been implemented public radio and television are currently funded through a combination of advertising and funds from the state budget israel edit licence fees were the primary source of revenue for the israel broadcasting authority when it was the state broadcaster every household was charged 345 73 for a television licence and car owners were charged 136 29 for a radio licence the television licence was abolished in 2015 133 but a radio licence is still required of car owners 134 since the 1980s the television programs of the israeli broadcasting authority were sponsored by commercial entities and the airing of public service announcements in a pseudo commercial format became widespread both of these practices while forbidden by the bbc model of television licence were also found in continental european public broadcasters albeit in a smaller scope than under the iba their use in israel caused a widespread public sentiment that the licence fee failed in its goal of ensuring that public broadcasting is free of commercial interests the israel broadcasting authority was replaced by the israeli broadcasting corporation in may 2017 its radio stations carry advertising and some of its television programmes are sponsored by commercial entities liechtenstein edit an annual licence was required between 1978 and 1998 for households with broadcast receiving equipment the income was divided between ptt and the swiss national broadcaster srg since 1998 an annual government grant for public media is administrated by the mediakommision the sole radio station in the principality radio liechtenstein was founded as a private commercial music station in 1995 it was nationalised in 2004 under liechtensteinischer rundfunk de to create a domestic public broadcasting station it is funded by commercials and the public broadcasting grant malaysia edit the annual television licence fee for television in 1990 was at rm 24 135 previously rm 36 in 1986 and rm 12 in 1985 136 while the radio licence fee in 1990 was at rm 12 135 unchanged since the 1960s 137 the licence fee for the former was also the lowest in the world as of 1989 138 the licence fee for monochrome televisions in 1985 was at rm 24 136 licences for home use radios were abolished by late 1985 with the amendments to the telecommunications act 1960 139 while radio licences were abolished on 1 january 1991 due to malaysia s improved economic performance 135 46 5 of television owners did not pay for the television licence in 1995 140 in 1995 the government had planned to introduce pre payment of television licence fees for people who have purchased a new television once every ten years amounting rm 240 for each replacing the annual payment which caused the government to lose millions of ringgit every year 141 the government planned to add a separate licence for cable and satellite television owners and an increase of television licence fee for such users in 1996 142 it also had planned to increase the television licence fee to rm 36 in 1998 137 the television licence fees were abolished in april 1999 however people still paid for the fees the government decided to refund the fees that amounted to rm 67 million 143 becoming just rm 21 million in 2000 144 until april 2000 145 malaysia had an annual television licence fee of myr 24 myr 2 per month one of the lowest television licence fees in the world now rtm is funded by the government and advertising malta edit the licence fee in malta funded television malta tvm and the radio stations radio malta and radju parliament run by public broadcasting services approximately two thirds of tvm s funding came from the licence fee with much of the remainder coming from commercials 146 malta s television licence was abolished in 2011 when the free to air system was introduced netherlands edit advertising on public television and radio started in 1967 but was tightly regulated initially there was only a small advertising segment before and after news broadcasts in the late 1980s commercial breaks of 1 to 3 minutes were allowed between programmes advertising on sundays was not permitted until 1991 due to excessive collection costs the fee was abolished around 2000 147 income tax was increased and the maximum duration of commercial breaks was extended to 5 and 7 minutes 147 the netherlands public broadcasting is now funded by government subsidy and advertising the amount of time used by commercial breaks may not exceed 15 per cent of daily broadcasting time or 10 per cent of total annual broadcasting time new zealand edit licence fees were first used in new zealand to fund the radio services of what was to become the new zealand broadcasting corporation television was introduced in 1960 and with it the television licence fee later known as the public broadcasting fee this was capped at nz 100 a year in the 1970s and the country s two television channels while still publicly owned became increasingly reliant on advertising from 1989 it was collected and disbursed by the broadcasting commission nz on air on a contestable basis to support local content production the public broadcasting fee was abolished in july 1999 148 149 150 nz on air was then funded by a direct appropriation from the ministry for culture and heritage north macedonia edit the licence fee in the republic of north macedonia was around 26 per year 151 until 2005 it was collected monthly as part of the electricity bill from november 2005 macedonian radio television mrt collected the fee until this responsibility was taken over by the public revenue office the fee was paid per household with exemptions for households not covered by a broadcasting signal and households of people with severe vision or hearing impairment hotels and motels were charged one broadcasting fee for every five rooms legal persons and office space owners paid for one broadcasting fee for each 20 employees or other users of the office space and owners of catering and other public facilities paid per television set mrt also received income from advertising and sponsorship in january 2017 the licence fee was abolished mrt macedonian broadcasting and the agency for audio and audiovisual media services are now financed directly from the budget of the republic of north macedonia 152 norway edit the licence fee in norway was abolished in january 2020 before that every household with a television needed to pay a fee of c 3000 kr c 305 the fee was charged per household people in a house who had a separate television and were not in the parental care of the householders needed to pay a separate licence fee 153 the fee was the primary source of income for norsk rikskringkasting nrk 154 since 2020 funding for nrk comes through taxation from each individual liable for income taxes in norway 155 romania edit until 2017 a licence fee was collected as part of the electricity bill it made up part of televiziunea română s tvr funding with the rest coming from advertising and government grants everyone with a television receiver or a computer needed to pay in 2016 the parliament of romania decided to abolish the fee from 1 january 2017 156 since then tvr s funding mainly comes from government grants and advertising singapore edit residents of singapore with televisions in their households or televisions or radios in their vehicles were required to acquire the appropriate licences from 1963 to 2010 the licence fee in 1963 was at 24 per year 2 per month touted at the time as being one of the cheapest in this part of the world 157 the licence fees are channelled to the singapore broadcasting authority where they would be used to fund minority and public service programmes 158 as of 1991 the licence fee was at 100 per year 159 the licence fees were abolished from 1 january 2011 then finance minister tharman shanmugaratnam reported that he was abolishing the fees as they were losing their relevance 160 slovakia edit the tv licence fee in slovakia was 4 64 per month 55 68 per year 161 in addition to the licence fee rtvs also received state subsidies and money from advertising the licence fee was abolished from 1 july 2023 29 soviet union edit until 1961 all radio and television receivers in the soviet union were required to be registered in local telecommunication offices and a subscription fee was to be paid monthly compulsory registration and subscription fees were abolished on 18 august 1961 with prices of radio and television receivers raised to compensate for the lost fees 162 sweden edit main article television licensing in sweden on 1 january 2019 the television licence swedish tv avgift literally tv fee in sweden was scrapped and replaced by a general public service fee swedish allmän public service avgift which is a flat income based public broadcasting tax of 1 per cent capped at 1 300 swedish kronor approximately us 145 or 126 per person per year 163 the fee is administered by the swedish tax agency swedish skatteverket 164 on behalf of the country s three public broadcasters sveriges television svt sveriges radio sr and sveriges utbildningsradio ur the fee pays for 5 television channels 45 radio channels and online television and radio previously the television licence was a household based flat fee originally it was referred as the television licence swedish tv licens but in the 2000s was renamed television fee it was last charged in 2018 at kr 2 400 per annum 165 it was payable in monthly bimonthly quarterly or annual instalments 166 to the agency radiotjänst i kiruna which was jointly owned by svt sr and ur the fee was collected by every household or company containing a television set and possession of such a device had to be reported to radiotjänst by law one fee was collected per household regardless of the number of television sets in the home or at other locations owned by the household such as summer houses although the fee also paid for radio broadcasting there was no specific fee for radios since the radio licence was abolished in 1978 167 television licence evasion was suspected to be around 11 to 15 per cent 168 taiwan edit a taiwanese tv licence between 1959 and the 1970s all radio and tv receivers in taiwan were required to have a licence with an annual fee of nt 60 this was to prevent influence from mainland china s the people s republic of china channels 169 thailand edit the radio broadcasting and television act b e 2498 1955 set a lifetime licence fee of 200 baht equivalent to 2 334 baht in 2020 for ownership of radio and television sets or parts 170 it was abolished in 1959 as television and radio quickly became a vital source of information 171 countries that have never had a television or broadcasting licence edit andorra edit ràdio i televisió d andorra the public broadcaster is funded by advertising and government grants with no fee for viewers brazil edit the federal company empresa brasil de comunicação which manages tv brasil and public radio stations rádio mec and rádio nacional is financed from the federal budget besides profit from licensing and production of programs institutional advertisement and service rendering to public and private institutions 172 the padre anchieta foundation which manages tv cultura and the cultura fm and cultura brasil radio stations in são paulo receives funds from the state government advertisements and fundraising from the private sector in december 1997 the education and culture tax a state tax in são paulo was instituted to fund the state s public broadcasters tv cultura and rádio cultura 173 the tax was charged monthly through electricity bills according to consumers energy consumption 174 175 however the collection of the fee was declared unconstitutional by the court of justice of the state of são paulo 176 chile edit the state owned chilean television broadcaster televisión nacional de chile tvn founded in ...