Swiss companies must be completely exempt from the radio-TV license fee. The National Telecommunications Commission is making this proposal in an indirect counter-project to the ‘200 francs, that’s enough’ initiative (SSR initiative).
The radio-TV license fee, currently set at 335 francs per year, must increase to 200 francs per year, demands the popular initiative of the UDC, the Swiss Union of Arts and Crafts and Jeunes PLR. The text also calls for exempting all companies.
Unlike the Federal Council, the commission is in favor of this complete exemption. By 13 votes to 12, she tabled a parliamentary initiative to this effect, which should serve as an indirect counter-proposal to the SSR initiative, Parliament services indicated on Tuesday.
The commission text also provides for a reduction in the fee for households, an expansion of the powers of the Independent Authority for examining radio and television complaints or an obligation for cooperation between the SSR and private providers.
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