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Yeah, France has the "redevance télé". You have to explicitly refuse any cable service from your ISP in order not to pay it. Otherwise you're screwed. And its c

• Thervicarl 6y ago
  > You have to explicitly refuse any cable service from your ISP in order not to pay it Legally, you have to pay if you have a television in you home and you are subject to paying the residence tax (which will soon be applicable to less than 20% of homes anyway). > And it's significant No, it's not. It's like less than 0.5% of the tax you are paying (considering income tax, social tax, residence/homeowning tax, VAT...). They just keep it because they can rile up /distract people when they increase the TV tax by 5 euros. And it is a way for the government to pressure public TV/radio into some obedience (since the government can basically cut a large part of their funding of these TV/radio by removing this tax).
  • aikah 6y ago
    > No, it's not. It's like less than 0.5% of the tax you are paying (considering income tax, social tax, residence/homeowning tax, VAT...). They just keep it because they can rile up /distract people when they increase the TV tax by 5 euros. You don't know my income,monthly expenses, how many kids I have to feed, whether I have a mortgage, an alimony to pay or not... You have no idea what my budget is. So less than 0.5% of what disposable income I have exactly? Tell me. I'm not paying a flat tax (the tax doesn't depend on household income as you are insinuating) for something I have no use for at first place.
• benhurmarcel 6y ago
  For context, it's 138€/year.