The State will collect 12.7% less in 2023 for two of the main taxes on 'telecos'

The lowering of the spectrum rate coincides with the end of the 'RTVE rate'

MADRID, 10 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government plans to enter 12.7% less in 2023 for two of the main specific taxes for the telecommunications sector (the radio domain reservation rate and the general telecommunications rate), according to the 2023 General State Budget project presented last week.

Specifically, the Executive foresees a joint public collection of 59 million euros, compared to the 67 million euros that it provided for in the 2022 budgets.

This is mainly due to a reduction in the radio domain reservation rate, which will collect 20% less, going from 50 to 40 million euros.

The reduction of what is known as the 'spectrum rate', of a temporary nature, is one of the measures included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) to encourage the deployment of 5G during the years 2022 and 2023.

On the other hand, the Executive has indeed revised upwards its income perspective through the general telecommunications rate, which will rise by 7.85%, to reach 19 million euros.

In parallel to this small reduction, telecommunications operators will receive another tax relief from 2023, regardless of whether the budgets are approved or not, such as the end of what is known as the 'RTVE rate'.

This rate forced telecommunications operators to contribute 0.9% of their gross income to the coffers of the public radio and television service, a measure that was born as a way to compensate RTVE's income when it stopped broadcasting advertising.

The sector estimated that each year it disbursed between 130 and 150 million euros in this concept, which has disappeared with the new Audiovisual Communication Law, although the text included a clause by which operators should continue to pay the aforementioned rate in 2022.