The French government’s controversial move to abolish the country’s 89-year-old TV license fee is due to be voted on by France’s upper house this week. The ending of the fee, currently set at 138 e…
The ending of the fee, currently set at 138 euros a year, is included in wider budget rectification legislation tackling the cost-of-living crisis.
The bill is expected to face stronger opposition from the 348 members of the centre-right-dominated upper house, which was due to address the matter in a public debate on Monday afternoon. The fee, which generates most of the funding for France Télévisions, Radio France, Franco-German broadcaster Arte and international TV channels France 24 and RFI, raised some $3.1b in 2020 to which the government added an additional $666m.
Regardless of this amendment, another sticking point with the VAT funding plan is a public spending law that comes into effect in 2025, which will require a link between a tax and the mission being financed by it.
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