Special French Radio Tax

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 36, 20 March 1931, Page 7

Special French Radio Tax

A Listener’s Difficulty JN addition to the usual radio license fee, every set owner in France must make a declaration at the near* est post office and make a payment of sixpence. An Hnglish contemporary thus describes a French listener’s experiences while endeavouring to pay this imposition. "The girl who attended to him informed him that he was the first person to ask for a declaration form during the. two years that she had been at the post office. After making a thorough but unsuccessful search, she consulted’ her senior colleagues, whose efforts were also fruitless. The wouldbe taxpayer was then requested to call again in a few days’ time, when the form would be available. This, he remarked, he intended to do, and declared his determination to pay the tax, even if he had to visit every one of the 128 post offices in Paris." It appears that there are instances where listeners have paid this tax, but these are very few in number, and no cases are known of any listener getting into trouble for not paying.