Editing Television licence (section)

=== Finland ===
[[File:Televisiolupa 1961.jpg|thumb|Stamped in [[Loviisa]]. The price for half a year was 3,000 [[Finnish markka|Mk]] in 1960s.]]
The television fee in [[Finland]] was between €244.90 and €253.80 per year for each household with a television. It was the primary source of funding for [[Yleisradio]] (Yle). In 2013 it was replaced with the [[Yle tax|Yle public broadcasting tax]] ({{langx|fi|yleisradiovero}}, {{langx|sv|rundradioskatt}}), a progressive income tax up to €163 per person.<ref name="End of the road for TV license fees" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv-maksu.fi/en/index/tietoa/uutiset/2012/P_63.html|title=Tämä domain on varattu asiakkaallemme |website=Tv-maksu.fi|access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv-maksu.fi/en/index.html|title=Tämä domain on varattu asiakkaallemme |website=Tv-maksu.fi|access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref> People with low incomes and under the age of eighteen years are exempt from the tax.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/information_and_material_on_taxatio/public_broadcasting_tax/ |title=Article in ''Finnish Public Broadcasting Tax for individual taxpayers'' |access-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706191205/https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/information_and_material_on_taxatio/public_broadcasting_tax/ |archive-date=6 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Residents of [[Åland]] did not have to pay the tax until 2020, but have been paying a media tax since 2021, which is currently (2024) at 123 euros per year.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-06 |language=en |title=Public Broadcasting Tax and Åland Islands media fee |url=https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/newsroom/visual_aids_for_presentations_and_for_t/public_broadcasting_tax/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>