UMP members have replaced Wednesday, in committee, the 3% tax on private channels desired by the government by a flexible fee may vary between 1.5% from 3%, a measure immediately denounced by the left and unions as a "gift to TF1."
The special commission to examine the draft law on public broadcasting, debate in the National Assembly from Tuesday, adopted an amendment to that effect rapporteur's UMP Christian Kert. Because, argue the right of "crisis" affecting the advertising revenue channels accountable.
The majority wants the death "of public service, reacted SNJ. It is "a" murder rule, "added the CGT.
Initially, the government had decided to offset the shortfall (450 million) resulting from the removal of the pub in the evening on France Televisions, create a tax of 3% (expected around 80 million) on advertising revenue TF1, M6 and Canal + and another 0.9% (about 370 million) on turnover of telecom operators.
The amendment Kert, to be accepted by the government and voted in public session by the chairman of the special commission, Jean-François Cope, removes this fee to another between 1.5% (floor rate) and 3% (ceiling).
The Committee has also instituted a "rendezvous clause" to evaluate the consequences of this tax. Within one year, the government will submit to Parliament a report on its "effective yield".
Specifically, because of the economic context, the rate paid by the channels should be 1.5% in 2009, according to a parliamentary source. "But advertising revenues projected to rebound in coming years and the tax will be higher than 1.5%. Quickly enough, we get a rate of 3%," said this source.
It is not "a gift" to private channels "but an element of justice because of the crisis," Mr. Cope was justified (UMP).
The Ministry of Culture and Communication Mr. Copé were immediately reassuring manner indicating that the shortfall (a priori 40 million euros in 2009) "will not affect the financing of France Televisions, which will be guaranteed by the state. " Without specifying where the government would draw.
"It changes the financial model and it is the government telling us how it will compensate or by increasing the funding for France Televisions, or otherwise ...", told AFP the MP Jean Dionis du Séjour (New Center).
The Committee has decided Wednesday to index the license fee (currently 116 euros) on inflation, but Nicolas Sarkozy to exclude the majority of play on the lever. "I live, there will be no increase in fees", recently launched Mr. Cope.
If the initiative fails, a UMP member, Jean-Pierre Gorges, has even filed Wednesday a bill to abolish the fee.
The majority also replaced the 0.9% tax on turnover of telecom operators by a progressive tax of between 0.5% and 0.9% depending on business performance through an amendment of Mr. Dion Stay to "allow the emergence and rise of small operators."
An initiative received a mixed Wednesday by telecommunications professionals who do not will be passed at the meeting, says Cope.
The special commission to examine the draft law on public broadcasting, debate in the National Assembly from Tuesday, adopted an amendment to that effect rapporteur's UMP Christian Kert. Because, argue the right of "crisis" affecting the advertising revenue channels accountable.
The majority wants the death "of public service, reacted SNJ. It is "a" murder rule, "added the CGT.
Initially, the government had decided to offset the shortfall (450 million) resulting from the removal of the pub in the evening on France Televisions, create a tax of 3% (expected around 80 million) on advertising revenue TF1, M6 and Canal + and another 0.9% (about 370 million) on turnover of telecom operators.
The amendment Kert, to be accepted by the government and voted in public session by the chairman of the special commission, Jean-François Cope, removes this fee to another between 1.5% (floor rate) and 3% (ceiling).
The Committee has also instituted a "rendezvous clause" to evaluate the consequences of this tax. Within one year, the government will submit to Parliament a report on its "effective yield".
Specifically, because of the economic context, the rate paid by the channels should be 1.5% in 2009, according to a parliamentary source. "But advertising revenues projected to rebound in coming years and the tax will be higher than 1.5%. Quickly enough, we get a rate of 3%," said this source.
It is not "a gift" to private channels "but an element of justice because of the crisis," Mr. Cope was justified (UMP).
The Ministry of Culture and Communication Mr. Copé were immediately reassuring manner indicating that the shortfall (a priori 40 million euros in 2009) "will not affect the financing of France Televisions, which will be guaranteed by the state. " Without specifying where the government would draw.
"It changes the financial model and it is the government telling us how it will compensate or by increasing the funding for France Televisions, or otherwise ...", told AFP the MP Jean Dionis du Séjour (New Center).
The Committee has decided Wednesday to index the license fee (currently 116 euros) on inflation, but Nicolas Sarkozy to exclude the majority of play on the lever. "I live, there will be no increase in fees", recently launched Mr. Cope.
If the initiative fails, a UMP member, Jean-Pierre Gorges, has even filed Wednesday a bill to abolish the fee.
The majority also replaced the 0.9% tax on turnover of telecom operators by a progressive tax of between 0.5% and 0.9% depending on business performance through an amendment of Mr. Dion Stay to "allow the emergence and rise of small operators."
An initiative received a mixed Wednesday by telecommunications professionals who do not will be passed at the meeting, says Cope.
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