After explaining how to submit the request for exemption for the Rai fee for those over 75, let’s move on to the opposite aspect of the Rai fee: who has the duty to pay it, citing current legislation.
In the implementing decree, and the circular of the Revenue Agency which is the body responsible for collecting the tax through the electricity bill, we read that the TV fee is payable by “anyone with a television set” or able to guarantee the use of TV content. The payment is made only once per family per family registry, so “a group of people linked by ties of marriage, civil union, kinship, affinity, adoption, protection or emotional ties, cohabitants and having habitual residence in the same municipality“.
The payment of the Rai license fee is also due by residents abroad, as long as they have a television set in their home.
Alongside the payment of the “traditional” Rai license, aimed at families, is added the special fee that must be paid by those who have radio or TV sets in the premises of their business.
The circular of the Ministry of Economy and Finance identifies as a television set “A device capable of receiving, decoding and displaying the digital terrestrial or satellite signal, directly or through an external decoder or tuner”.