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The fee is expected to be removed in the coming weeks. Source of financing for the public audio-visual sector, the question of its replacement returns with insistence.
Promoted by commercials in the 80s, audiovisual license fees are surely living their 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.
Dawn Bankpresident of the Renaissance group, the presidential majority, to 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”says Sarah The seedMember of Parliament Nupes-LFI from Paris. Economics professor at Sciences Po and media specialist Julia Cage imagine a progressive tax as is the case in Sweden or Norway. The actors of the public audiovisual sector, the main ones concerned, demand a permanent resource to preserve their independence.
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