New laws for TV licence

30th May 2009

Poland’s lower house of parliament, The Sejm, has voted to abolish the national television license and replace it with direct funding from taxation.


The government has long argued that the fee is impossible to collect, to the point that only around 40 percent of households pay it, and a much larger sum of PLN 900 mln could be raised per year from new legislation.

The bill is still to pass through the upper house and the senate before being signed by President Lech Kaczynski. ...