Will the RAI fee arrive for anyone who owns a smartphone or tablet?
Fuortes has presented here a picture that is by no means reassuring for public TV, which in recent years has suffered a decline in revenues equal to 700 million euros . The CEO of RAI attributes the responsibility for this loss in large part to the decrease in advertising and commercial revenues, due to the ever wider range of digital terrestrial and premium products. Tax evasion still weighs on public service revenues, which however is down by 5-3% thanks to the introduction of the payment of the fee in the bill.
The RAI fee, underlines Fuortes, is the most limited throughout Europe, with 90 euros per year against, for example, the 138 in France. The maintenance of this limited cost, however, has had very serious consequences on the optimization of schedules, which has undergone a reduction in investments especially in cultural products and in real estate and technological infrastructures.
By to counter this negative trend, Fuortes has therefore advanced to the Parliamentary Commission the proposal to extend the obligation to pay the RAI license fee also to owners of multimedia devices such as smartphones and tablets, which would therefore be added to the owners of a television set and to the holders of invoices issued by electricity companies.
Fuertes has also carried out three other possible moves to raise public service revenues in Italy: the full recognition of the fee resources (with consequent elimination of the current 110 million withholding tax), the cancellation of the tax on concession of the ordinary fee and the reduction of the crowding limit of commercials for each band to 8% from the current 15%.
The Fuortes proposal immediately provoked rejections from the political world , who complain on all sides the inadequacy of the RAI public service, which they say must be solved in terms of contents and infrastructures before burdening consumers further.
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