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The abolition of the future audiovisual license fee is debated. Already at the origin of a recent strike, this campaign promise of Emmanuel Macron splits within the National Assembly.
Promoted by commercials in the 80s, the television license fee is surely living its last hours. Campaign promise and will of President Emmanuel Macron, its removal should be studied soon on the benches of the National Assembly. Created in 1933, it now brings in more than 3 billion euros, mainly intended for France Télévisions and Radio France.
To finance public broadcasting, Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group at the National Assembly, pleads to levy a fraction of the VAT. “We are not creating a new tax“, she assures. The left fears, for its part, a guardianship. “It’s a promise of suffocation for public service broadcasting“, advances Sarah Legrain, Nupes-LFI deputy for Paris. The professor of economics at Sciences Po and media specialist Julia Cagé imagines a progressive tax as is the case in Sweden or Norway. , the main parties concerned, are demanding a sustainable resource to preserve their independence.
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