Radio-TV – Some of the money from our pensions is used to finance the SSR

– Some of the money from our pensions is used to finance the SSR

Ninety pension funds are subject to the levy. They paid 800,000 francs in 2021. For the right, this is an injustice that must be corrected.

Posted today at 4:33 p.m.

The television tower in Geneva, headquarters of Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS).

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It’s a tiny drop in the ocean of royalty. Of the 1.2 billion that the SSR receives per year, we are only talking here about 800,000 francs. But if this sum questions, it is that it comes from the money of our pensions. Indeed, the law on radio and television (LRTV) is such that some pension funds are subject to the license fee. Ninety to be precise, according to figures from the Federal Tax Administration (AFC) that we obtained.

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This hare, it was Frédéric Borloz (PLR / VD) who flushed him out. In a motion, the national councilor asks that pension funds be exempted from the fee. He himself is not one of the detractors of the SSR; if it intervenes, it is to correct certain defects in the law. “The system of taxing citizens and businesses may not be perfect, but it has been embraced by the people. And that, I accept. On the other hand, we cannot tolerate what amounts to triple taxation, since the insured already pay the fee individually and their employer too.