The Beitragsservice von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio (ARD costing service, ZDF and Deutschlandradio) (commonly referred to simply as Beitragsservice ), is a joint organization of the German public broadcaster ZDF agency, Deutschlandradio and the state broadcaster ARD located in Cologne. The Beitragsservice is responsible for collecting license fees. The compulsory license fee for each household is set out in Rundfunkfinanzierungsstaatsvertrag (state agreement on broadcast financing). Since 2013, this cost must be paid by every household in Germany, regardless of whether the household actually has the ability to receive the broadcast itself. Until 2013, it is known as GEZ , short for GebÃÆ'¼hreneinzugszentrale der ÃÆ'¶ffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ).
Video Beitragsservice von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio
Organization
The Beitragsservice is an administrative association subject to public law and has no legal capacity. It operates as a shared data center of the ARD state broadcaster, ZDF and Deutschlandradio, and manages the collection of license fees. It was made by an administrative agreement.
The Beitragsservice is therefore not a legal entity, but part of a public broadcaster. However, Beitragsservice is a public authority in the material sense according to the Federal Administrative Administration Act of Germany (VwVfG), for performing public administration duties. It performs these tasks on behalf of state broadcasters.
Maps Beitragsservice von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio
Task
Since January 1, 1976, Beitragsservice (known as GEZ through 2013) has collected RundfunkgebÃÆ'¼hren (broadcast license fee) as set out in Rundfunkfinanzierungsstaatsvertrag (state agreement on broadcast financing). This was previously the responsibility of the Deutsche Bundespost (German federal post office). The GEZ task in detail is:
- Collection of license fees (get license fees in arrears, handling payments)
- Refund of license fees
- Planning license fees
- Customer service
On December 31, 1976, 18.5 million sets of TVs and 20.4 million radios were registered in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Planning license fees
The Beitragsservice has overall control over the licensing fee revenue planning of public-legal broadcasting provision in the Federal Republic of Germany. Based on initial work by Beitragsservice , license fees are planned for a five-year period in advance or current cost period by Arbeitsgruppe GebÃÆ'¼hrenplanung (licensing fee planning working group), which is a subgroup of Finanzkommission der Rundfunkanstalten (financial commission of broadcasting agency). The managing director Beitragsservice is the chairman of Arbeitsgruppe GebÃÆ'¼hrenplanung .
Charging license fees
The license fee for Radio, TV and New Media is EUR17,98 per month, starting January 1, 2009 on. For radio reception only, the monthly fee is EUR5.76.
On June 9, 2010, the state governor decided that the average model of the cost of household licensing from Heidelberg University Professor Paul Kirchhof would be introduced in 2013. This model specifies the collection of licensing fees as a sum at once per household, regardless of the number of broadcast receiver devices present, or even, if any device is present at all. This requires that 'GEZ' be reorganized, and that the commission on broadcasting license fees is no longer employed by state broadcasters. The monthly cost per household now is EUR17.98, the amount previously paid for television reception. Payers who previously only registered radio or "new broadcast receiver" devices but no TV sets will see their license fees increased by 212% (from EUR5.76 to EUR17.98), but previous households have to pay a lot of license fees have to pay less.
Starting January 1, 2013, persons with disabilities are no longer exempt from paying a license fee but must pay a third of the average household rate of EUR17.98. Under the previous regulation, deaf and deaf hearing viewers have been released. However, they began contributing in 2013 regardless of the relative few hours of TV programs with closed captions. The Dialog Signs , the working group of the Deaf Association of Germany, has nominated that they are more willing to pay full tariffs once a milestone of 100% of closed captions have been reached.
License fee revenue and administration fees
In 2010, GEZ raised EUR7.65 billion in license fees for state broadcasters. The billing fee reached EUR160.5 million, which is about 2.13% of total revenue or EUR3,83 per participant. Supplementary costs were generated by state broadcasters by the so-called Beauftragtendienste (commissioner services), expenses for collection of license fees of EUR184.97 million in 2007, according to ARD's 2008 annual book.
According to its 2010 annual report, GEZ employs 1148 people.
In 2016 the total amount of license fees collected amounted to EUR7,978,041,425.77 of which income for Beitragsservice alone amounted to EUR167,954,892.36.
Elicitation and data storage
State broadcasters, and GEZ respectively, are permitted to store and organize all required payer data to perform their duties. The Federal Statistical Office of Germany counted 39 million households, while GEZ in 2004 had 41.2 million sets of payer data. This includes 2.2 million sets of payer data dealing with the ownership of a radio/television receiving device. GEZ has one of the most comprehensive databases on the population of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Another source of data is the resident registration office. They are continuing new enrollments and registration changes to GEZ. In 2002, German registration authorities transferred over 12 million sets of data to GEZ.
To identify non-payers, GEZ adjusts their databases with data sets purchased from commercial address vendors. This is allowed under the provision of Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (the state agreement on broadcasting), however, it is reminiscent of a net investigation.
Investigation and Observation
GEZ does not have its own field service. It acquires new participants exclusively through voluntary registration from users, address comparison, write notifications and collect data from other sources.
If there is no answer to the first written notice, the following two letters are arranged in increasingly loud tones, often giving rise to the official action connotations taken shortly after. Because these letters are potentially accepted by all resident addresses, even those who have no legal obligation to provide information can be asked to do so.
In addition, GEZ - to complete the data set collected from the resident registration office - works with commission fees for broadcast licenses from state broadcasters to collect new data. These commissioners often work as field workers working for commissions, or employees working for state broadcasters. They have no official power, and must identify themselves with their id cards issued by state broadcasters.
Bread and Circus
Acceptance of the concept by the German population is not unanimous. According to the 2015 annual report the amount of payment notice (MahnmaÃÆ'Ÿnahmen) rose to 20.21 million and the number of enforcement actions (Vollstreckungsersuche) became 890.212. With an estimated percentage of 3.41% non paid households.
The reasons for the numbers are unclear, but one reason may be that the biggest budget cuts are invested in football's rights football [1] which does not directly reflect the stated organizational goals for example. independent information services, national cultural content. [2]
One can argue (as Noam Chomsky did in the Manufacturing Approval) that this beginning is a clear implementation of the 2000-year-old population-controlling democracy instrument designated as Bread and Circus.
Resistance
There are several cases of regional law courts that decide against the legality of foreclosure (Zwangsvollstreckung - forcible seizure of property, for example directly from a bank account registered in a tax office or from a direct pay check with an employing entity) to cover the amount of the contribution due (non-tax), on organism seizure becomes private and not part of the State. [3]
There is also the case of a jailed citizen for having no confiscated property. He was later released on account of allegations imposed by offended organisms after all the noise in the public and private media. [4]
Although all the informative and sometimes threatening letters are written in German, there are many support groups across the country and a lot of content in English [5]. They can help people who do not understand German (and therefore do not consume media content in German) about how to deal with the situation.
One example is how to set up PfÃÆ'¤ndungsschutzkonto [6] to avoid the complete deprivation of money from a bank account.
Another way, it was not possible in the past, but it is now feasible because the implementation of mandatory use of IBAN for bank transfer, is not have a German account at all, but a foreign eurozone. Somehow, and this is an assumption, if they are not registered on a German legal database (eg risk management, tax office), the previous GEZ has no way to trigger foreclosure.
Nonetheless, the legal possibility of confiscation of income property directly with the employer holding.
References
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