302 Television Licences In Italy

We've Just Purchased A Television And Have Treied Without Success To Find Out About Television Licences - Are They Required Or Do People Simply Not Bother? Any Advice On How To Go About Things?

Thanks - Graham

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General chat about Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 08:16

they are required but to my knowledge they don't have detector vans! I believe it's about 90 euro

Susi

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 08:37

[QUOTE=Susi]they are required but to my knowledge they don't have detector vans! I believe it's about 90 euro

Susi[/QUOTE]

I take then that equals - no one pays !!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 09:08

[QUOTE=Susi]they are required but to my knowledge they don't have detector vans! I believe it's about 90 euro

Susi[/QUOTE]

My Italian friends advised me that if you buy a new TV in Italy, the retailer is obliged to send your name and address to the licensing authority.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 12:27

We bought a tv from Coop they didn't even ask who we were!!and if they had we would have just given mum in law's address, she is a law abiding citizen and has a tv licence.

Susi

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 13:33

We bought a TV in Italy - paid cash so no address was taken. I have had a request for payment however, (not paid it yet) so I guess you could just hang on until you get the same. Has anyone been fined??

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/26/2005 - 16:54

The television tax (canone TV) is 99.6 euro per year.
The authorities periodically check the list of the new residents, so if you are registered in the anagrafe of your local municipality, probably you'll receive a written advice from SAT (Sportello Abbonamenti TV), even if you don't have a television (or don't have purchased one recently).

Generally, you can ignore it (as everybody does), but be aware that eventually someday you could receive a visit from the inspector.

I think this is quite likely to happen if you live the cities of the northern regions.

Personally, I didn't pay for three years, since a day of december my bell rung.

...now I happily belong to the community of honest citizens... :( :( :(

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/25/2005 - 11:54

[QUOTE=GrahamSmith]We've Just Purchased A Television And Have Treied Without Success To Find Out About Television Licences - Are They Required Or Do People Simply Not Bother? Any Advice On How To Go About Things?

Thanks - Graham[/QUOTE]
hi, they do have a van to find illegally held TVs, go to [url]www.rai.it[/url] and look for abbonamento TV. there are high fines for clever people...