The ORF amount for all households based in Austria does not violate the principle of equality and therefore the constitution. This stems from a judgment of the Hochen -oriented.
The opportunity was a complaint that made it clear that it was contrary to the fact that households in which no ORF content is used to pay the contribution of EUR 15.30 a month. However, the Constitutional Court does not see that the principle of equality has been violated.
Theoretical access to offering is sufficient
The principle of equality does not require that the contribution to the actual consumption of the offer was clearly made, the VFGH made it clear. “As part of a participation -oriented uniform tax distribution, it is only important that the contributors have the opportunity to use the Public Service (ORF),” said it. This option also has if you do not have a television and radio device. In principle, it is in the entire social interest that the broadcast perceives its special democratic and cultural task.
A variety of complaints submitted
Due to a large number of complaints against the prescription of the ORF contribution, the VFGH applied a regulation for a so-called mass procedure in March. As a result, all pending procedures at the Federal Administrative Court (BVWG) were interrupted. These are now being continued.
The conversion of the device-linked GIS compensation to an ORF contribution in the form of a budget tax by the then federal government (ÖVP, Greens) at the beginning of 2024 countless persons of the professions. The ORF contribution is 15.30 euros per month and household. Since the switch, it doesn’t matter whether television or radio have been in your own four walls. For most people who previously paid the GIS allowance, it became cheaper. Hundreds of thousands of households had to pay for the first time.
Source: Krone
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