compensating for its abolition with part of the VAT is “neither done nor to be done”, for the PS

“It’s neither done nor to be done”denounced the deputy and spokesperson for the Socialist Party (PS) Arthur Delaporte this Saturday on franceinfo, about the abolition of the audiovisual license fee to finance public broadcasting and the government’s solution to replace it. “We remove a tax […] some of which are already exempt” to replace it with “a very unfair tax, VAT, which everyone pays, even those who don’t have a TV”, he was indignant. In effect, “When you are a pensioner at least old age, you benefit from the Disabled Adult Allowance or when you simply do not have a television at home, you do not pay the license fee”he recalled.

The elected Socialist recognizes, however, that the audiovisual license fee “is no longer an appropriate tax at all”that it is on the contrary, “aging and obsolete”. Nevertheless, “Is it in the middle of summer, between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., without having thought about anything at all, nor discussed with those in charge of public broadcasting, unions, users, having carried out a great reflection, that we are carrying out a reform of such magnitude which will threaten the public broadcasting service?he questioned, while the National Assembly voted, in first reading, this Saturday at the end of the morning, the abolition of the royalty.

The elected PS is favorable to him “progressive tax” proposed by the economist Julia Cagé, to ensure the financing of public broadcasting, of which Radio France and France Televisions are part, he explained. Thereby, “8 million French people would be totally exempt” of this tax, “even if they benefit from the public service [de l’audiovisuel]4 million additional French people would pay less than 30 euros per year instead of 138 euros to benefit from the public service [de l’audiovisuel]and only the richest 10 to 15% of French people would see their contribution increase slightly “he defended at the microphone of franceinfo.