The TV license fee is the contribution to public broadcasting. Collected from taxpayers and intended to finance part of the public television and radio channels (France Télévisions, Radio France, Arte France, France Médias Monde, TV5 Monde and INA), this tax was finally abolished for the year 2022 and future years by Emmanuel Macron. One box less, therefore, on the 2023 tax return.
With a large number of taxpayers who did not specify that they did not have a television, this audiovisual license fee was paid by 23 million households. Its deletion is therefore enough to make the greatest happiness of a good number of French people.
In 1933 this tax only included radio. Then present with television since 1948 on the tax returns of the French, this fee cost 138 euros. By financing the French public media, it aimed to make information objective. This is why in the future a new box will surely be added to your tax return.
Indeed, even if today this tax no longer exists, the amount of money it brought in (3.8 billion euros in 2020) and the quality of information to which it contributed, are not negligible. . For the moment, nothing has been decided on this subject. On the other hand, one thing is certain: with the aim of preserving the purchasing power of the French, the abolition of the TV license fee is a measure that is appreciated by many taxpayers.
