Starting from 2024, the amount of Rai license fee will no longer be reflected on the electricity bill. This was confirmed yesterday by Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, speaking at the closing event of the Lega per Lazio election campaign at the Carpegna Palace in Rome on Wednesday, February 8th. “It’s clear that the Rai license fee needs to be off the bill, we kept that up for this year and I got a lot of criticism, but it has to come off,” the minister said.
Why can the Rai license fee be “off the bill”?
The possibility of changing payment methods has been talked about for months. As a matter of fact, as we have explained before, our country has made a commitment to abolish the obligation of companies that sell electricity to the EU “to collect amounts not directly related to energy through invoices” as of 2023. In his election campaign, Salvini went even further, promising that the tax would be abolished once and for all. “There are already ten European countries that do not charge for public radio and television service,” said the Northern League. “Thanks to Renzi, the Rai fee weighs the bill: 90 euros can say it doesn’t make a difference, there are people who eat three times as much with 90 euros”.
But for now, the hypothesis that the license fee could be revoked seems very distant, so much so that Giorgetti made no mention of it yesterday. “This year – the words of the Northern League minister – I took a tremendous responsibility and clearly got a lot of criticism from everyone, because we came and it stayed on the bill, otherwise everything would have sprung, but obviously the Rai license fee will have to be off the bill and therefore next year there will be another “We’re going to have to find instruments,” he said.
Unknowns about quantity and evasion
How will the fee be paid from next year? Without knowing the government’s intentions, one can only speculate. There is no shortage of time to think of a solution and no doubt to solve. The controversial law, approved by the Renzi government in 2016, made it possible to cut the license fee from 113 euros to 100 euros, and then to 90 euros, by reducing leakages. What about another collection system? Undoubtedly, there is a risk of returning to the old days of tax, which some taxpayers pay dearly and which is avoided by many “shrewd”. One of Renzi’s innovations was the assumption of owning a television. Will it continue to be valid next year? Questions that remain unanswered for now.
Source: Today IT
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