The RTV subscriber is to be replaced by a fee of PLN 8-9 per month

The proposed change to the RTV subscription assumes its complete withdrawal in its current form. Polish tv (TVP) and Polish Radio are to be financed by an audiovisual fee, but this will no longer be charged to households, but to taxpayers with income tax, and the collection is to be carried out by the taxation office,” informs the portal "virtualnemedia", which gained access to the bill.

In the current strategy there is simply a RTV subscription, the download of which is commissioned Poczcie Polska. The gross from this fee shall be transferred to the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) to finance the public mission by TVP and PR. However, there is simply a decrease in subscription revenues from year to year.

According to the fresh study of the ultimate Chamber of Control, as of 2017, TVP S.A. has mainly based its budget on subscription compensations from the government. In 2017-2022 the sum of compensation from the state budget for TVP SA amounted to PLN 7.2 billion, and in 2023 an additional PLN 2.3 billion is forecast. According to NIK, the share of these compensations in station revenues from 2021-2022 was already over 60 percent.

The virtualmedia.pl manufacture portal gained access to the assumptions of the fresh Public Media Act, which was prepared by Jan Dworak, erstwhile president of TVP, along with a group of experts. According to these assumptions, the proposed public media financing model includes a two-step process. In the first stage, the measures will come straight from the state budget, while in the second stage, a general audiovisual contribution is planned.

Audiovisual fee alternatively of RTV subscription – what will it be

As part of the task presented, it was proposed that the audiovisual fee should no longer cover households, as it is presently the case, but individuals with income and businesses. The audiovisual contribution would be regulated all month.

‘Tests to find the amount of the contribution have been taken in the past, for example, on the presumption that the sum of the funds obtained from the contribution should correspond to the amount of the proceeds obtained from the subscription fees if they were paid in full by all obliged persons, including persons legally exempt. At the time of simulations, yearly revenues were estimated at about PLN 3.5 billion. This allowed the yearly audiovisual contribution to be estimated at about PLN 100 per year, or about PLN 8.30 per period payable by each taxpayer. specified calculation means that an average household of 2 people paying income taxation would bear a lower burden than the current subscription fee, or PLN 27.30 per household" – written in the project.

According to the information provided by the portal, entrepreneurs would pay multiples of the audiovisual contribution, e.g. 20 times, while NGOs, e.g. 5 times this contribution.

The task developers presume that the amount of the audiovisual contribution will be subject to yearly valorisation. The work to pay this fee would be exempt from the work of low income, from visual or proceeding disorders, unemployed persons, persons receiving an pension, as well as those whose monthly earnings do not exceed the minimum wage, but those conducting economical or agricultural activities.

We would like to remind you that the fresh president of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Media, Bogdan Zdrojewski announced the liquidation of the Rtv subscription and the abolition of multimillion subsidies for public media.