TV ROYALTY. After the abolition of the audiovisual license fee, the tax authorities will reimburse this tax for more than 6 million households. Here are the payment dates.
[Mis à jour le 31 août 2022 à 11h05] Good news for this start of the 2022 school year, if you have a television at home, a refund of the audiovisual license fee will take place in the coming days! Indeed, within the framework of the purchasing power law and the tax relief desired by the Head of State Emmanuel Macron, the abolition of the TV license fee has now been approved. In other words, no more tax of 138 euros in mainland France, and 88 euros overseas. The tax authorities will soon reimburse you according to a very specific schedule. In September if you are paid monthly and exempt from housing tax. In October if you are paid monthly but you always pay council tax. If you are not monthly, it’s even simpler, you have nothing to pay! In total, this reimbursement concerns 6 million households in France. As a reminder, the tv license fee was a tax used to finance public broadcasting. Households that had a similar device (video recorder, DVD player or video projector) equipped with a tuner and connected to a screen, for example, were also concerned. The contribution to public broadcasting was due for a tax household, regardless of the number of televisions and residences subject to housing tax.
The abolition of the tv license fee will give rise to various reimbursements during the months of September and October 2022. Three main situations exist, here they are:
- Monthly payment and exempt from housing tax : reimbursement in September by bank transfer
- Monthly payment and payment of housing tax : reimbursement in October
- Not monthly : no steps
In 2021, the public audiovisual contribution amounted to 138 euros, for everyone and regardless of the composition of your household or the number of televisions. Overseas, it was lower since it stood at 88 euros. As a reminder, the contribution to public broadcasting had to be paid each year before its abolition in the summer of 2022. Since 2005, it was backed by the housing tax. Its amount was therefore entered on the notice of assessment of the local tax.
The amending finance law (LFR) for 2022 published in Official newspaper of August 17, 2022 abolishes from 2022 the contribution to public broadcasting which makes it possible to finance public broadcasting. This fee, which brought in 3.7 billion euros to the State, will be compensated by a transfer of a fraction of the VAT proceeds until the end of 2024. The abolition of the fee is part of the government’s desire to reduce the taxes of the French in the face of the constant rise in inflation for several months. It is also possible to mention the abolition of the housing tax which will concern all owners of their main residence in 2023.
You discover that you are liable for the TV license fee and want to know if there are any exemption situations? Here are the taxpayers who are not subject to this tax:
- You benefit from the AAH and your income does not exceed a ceiling.
- You are disabled or live with a disabled person: exemption is possible, again subject to income.
- Your reference tax income is equal to 0.
- You are under 21 (or under 25 and studying) and are still attached to your parents’ tax household.
- You are over 60 or you are a widow (or widower): it is possible to benefit from an exemption subject to income (see below).
- You receive the minimum old age (ASPA) or the UPS.
- You live in an nursing home or a retirement home.
Remember that the reference tax income must also not exceed certain ceilings. Here are the reference tax income limits not to be exceeded:
- 1 share: 11,120 euros
- 1.5 shares: 14,089 euros
- 2 units: €17,058
- 2.5 units: €20,027
- 3 shares: 22,996 euros