Television licence
State Television Radio
Burgenland €284.36 €79.20
Carinthia €312.46 €87.60
Lower Austria €315.96 €87.60
Upper Austria €251.16 €70.80
Salzburg €307.56 €90.00
Styria €320.76 €88.80
Tyrol €295.56 €82.80
Vorarlberg €251.16 €70.80
Vienna €315.96 €87.96
Television licences around the world -- Austria
Under the Austria RGG ( TV and Radio Licence Law ) , all broadcasting reception equipment in use or operational at a given location must be registered . The location of the equipment is taken to be places of residence or any other premises with a uniform purpose of use . The agency responsible for licence administration in Austria is GIS - Gebühren Info Service GmbH , a 100% subsidiary of the Austrian Broadcasting Company ( ORF ) , as well as an agency of the Ministry of Finance , charged with performing functions concerning national interests . Transaction volume in 2007 amounted to €682 million , 66% of which are allocated to the ORF for financing the organization and its programs , and 35% are allocated to the federal government and the local governments ( taxes and funding of local cultural activities ) . GIS employs some 191 people and approximately 125 freelancers in field service . 3.4 million Austrian households are registered with GIS . The percentage of licence evaders in Austria amounts to 2.5% . The main principle of GIS 's communication strategy is to inform instead of control . To achieve this goal GIS uses a four-channel communication strategy : Above-the-line activities ( advertising campaigns in printed media , radio and TV ) . Direct Mail . Distribution channels – outlets where people can acquire the necessary forms for registering ( post offices , banks , tobacconists & five GIS Service Centers throughout Austria ) . Field service – customer consultants visiting households not yet registered . The annual television & radio licence varies in price depending on which state one lives in . Annual fees from April 2017 are : [ 12 ]
A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set where some broadcasts are funded in full or in part by the licence fee paid. The fee is sometimes also required to own a radio or receive radio broadcasts. A TV licence is therefore effectively a hypothecated tax for the purpose of funding public broadcasting, thus allowing public broadcasters to transmit television programmes without, or with only supplemental, funding from radio and television advertisements. However, in some cases the balance between public funding and advertisements is the opposite - the Polish TVP broadcaster receives more funds from advertisements than from its TV tax.