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Hotels face TV licence hike under RTE plan.
(From Irish Independent)
HOTELS, pubs, bed and breakfasts and betting shops with 16 televisions ormore might have to pay a television licence fee of [euro]750, under proposals from RTE.
In a submission to the Department of Communications, released under the Freedom of Information Act, the national broadcaster has outlined how it wants to see a controversialcommercial licence fee implemented.
RTE wants businesses with 16 to 50 televisions to pay five times the standard TV licence of [euro]150. This would hit smaller hotels and guesthouses, as well as pubs, shops, offices,colleges and government buildings.
Larger businesses with over 50 television sets would pay [euro]1,500 annually, under RTE'sproposal.
However, as reported in theIrish Independent in early May, Minister forCommunications Dermot Ahern has taken the proposed commercial licence off his immediate agenda. The concerns of the hospitality sector are believed to have influencedthis decision. In a letter to RTE chairman Paddy Wright, Mr Ahern wrote on May 22 of this year that decisions relating to a licence fee and the ...
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