In order to refute National Councillor Flückiger-Bäni, the "Fact Check" is rehashing an old discussion from the referendum campaign surrounding the Radio and Television Act (RTVG) in spring 2016 by adopting the arguments of the RTVG supporters at the time 1:1: Companies have already had to pay fees (depending on the receiving devices). In the future, 75 percent of companies will not pay any fees at all because they do not reach the turnover limit of 500,000 francs. And 9 percent of companies will pay less in the future (with RTVG) than in the current system. Only 16 percent of companies will see an increase in prices.
These statements were already incorrect in the RTVG, as anyone could easily see from the corresponding statements by the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and australia rcs data Communications (Uvek). And they still aren't. In the old system, every business location of a company (for example, a branch or subsidiary) had to pay the fee depending on the equipment it actually had. In the new RTVG system, every company (no longer every business location) pays a fee depending on its annual turnover. Companies with a turnover of less than 500,000 francs (around 75 percent of all companies) pay nothing. 500,000 francs and one million francs pay the same amount as natural persons. The highest fee (39,000 francs per year) is paid by companies with a turnover of over one billion francs.