Sweden To Charge TV Tax For Anyone With A Computer or Tablet

The same way it was for television. Radiotjänsten personal goes door to door and asks if there is a receiver in the house. They might also try to listen for suspicious sound, peek into the living room or threaten, to get you to confess that you should pay the fee. Then you receive a yearly bill.

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Post by ukdm » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 12:52 PM UTC

drucken wrote: post #2

How is the tax actually/to be charged though?

If I'm understanding it correctly, there's already a TV license in place that households pay. This update just means if your house doesn't have a TV, and instead consumes all media on a tablet or similar device, you still need to pay the fee, where as before you could argue you didn't need to pay it for lack of a TV.

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Post by patrickg » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 12:52 PM UTC

We have this tax in Germany as well. They just don't call it a tax, but every household and company has to pay 216 Euro/year.

They used to bind it to having a computer/radio/tv/mobile phone (with radio/internet) but now you even have to pay if you don't own any of those.

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Post by klez » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 1:03 PM UTC

patrickg wrote: post #6

We have this tax in Germany as well. They just don't call it a tax, but every household and company has to pay 216 Euro/year. They used to bind it to having a computer/radio/tv/mobile phone (with radio/internet) but now you even have to pay if you don't own any of those.

Same here in Italy. Here they tax for any apparatus that is meant or adaptable to receive tv or radio signals. So basically anything with a graphical display.

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Post by unkoman » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

It's not a tax. It's a fee, required to pay by law to fund independent channels of opinion free from government and/or private funded influence.

200 eur a year is quite cheap for what you get.

http://www.radiotjanst.se/en/Radio-and-TV-fee/

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Post by MrCheese » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 1:18 PM UTC

unkoman wrote: post #8

It's not a tax. It's a fee, required to pay by law to fund independent channels of opinion free from government and/or private funded influence. 200 eur a year is quite cheap for what you get. http://www.radiotjanst.se/en/Radio-and-TV-fee/

Unless you have no interest in watching the programs. Then it's horribly expensive

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Post by derda » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

Germany had this for some years. The fee is almost the same as in Sweden. I feel ripped off by this, its a remainder of a time when TV-Broadcasting was still so expensive that only public founded institutions could provide it. These ages are long gone. Until beginning of this year it was actually relatively easy to avoid paying it. You just did never answer one of their letters and took care who you opened the door. Now its tax-like for every household. What disgusts me most there is almost no control over the budgets they just collect whatever they want. The politicians that are assigned to the advisory board do nothing, cause they fear bad publicity by the channels (and also want to secure some well paying jobs for friends).