The TV license fee is about to disappear. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the two finalists for the presidential election, have indicated that they intend to put an end to this tax. The liable households will thus save 88 euros, or even 138 euros in mainland France!
It is therefore Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen who will face each other on Sunday April 24 in the second round of the presidential election. If their program is very different, there is at least a promise they share in the event of an election to the Presidency of the Republic: the abolition of the TV license fee.
For his first public appearance as a presidential candidate, on March 8, Emmanuel Macron proposed to abolish the audiovisual license fee. A decision consistent with the abolition of housing tax, one of the key measures of its campaign in 2017. The latter is a reality for 80% of households and will be fully so next year for the most aiss. She will have allowed a gain of 40 billion euros for 30 million households over the previous five-year period, according to the Minister of Finance.
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How to replace the TV fee?
A shortfall to which it will therefore be necessary to add the 3.2 billion euros per year brought in by the audiovisual license fee. In 2022, households liable in metropolitan France will have to pay 138 euros of TV license fees, while the inhabitants of the overseas departments pay 88euros this title. The result of this tax is used to finance public sector TV and radio channels, such as France Televisions, Radio France, Arte or France Mdias Monde (France 24, RFI, etc.).
Like Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen also wants to put an end to the TV license fee. This is the 6th measure of his program. But what to replace this tax with?
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The government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, referred to the track of a voted budget for five years, which cannot be waived in order to guarantee public broadcasting its means, its independence and long-term visibility. For her part, the candidate of the National Rally intends privatize public broadcasting. No more funding problem then.
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