Rai fee 2023, last days for the exemption: who can ask for it and how

Also in 2023 the Rai fee will be paid in the bill, despite technically being an improper burden. Yet, in defiance of the European Union’s reproaches, even in a year in which energy costs are and should remain high, there will continue to be a cost item in supplier invoices that shouldn’t be there. The license fee is a tax for the possession of a television also payable by residents abroad, if they have one in their Italian home.

In some cases, however, it is possible to submit an exemption request, the deadline for doing so is about to expire after which you will have to pay even if you fall into one of the cases described below. In fact, since 2016 there is the presumption of possession, that is, it is taken for granted that those who use electricity also have one or more televisions at home (but the tax to be paid is in any case only one). Otherwise you have to report it through self-certification which must be sent by Tuesday 31 January.

I’m 90 euros a year charged to the electricity service bill in 10 installments of 9 euros each not due to Rai and the State in the event that the electricity user:

• does not own a television, defined as a device that can receive the radio and television signal
• is over 75 years old and has an income of less than 8,000 euros a yearincluding your spouse
• it’s a: diplomatic agent, consular official or employee, official of international organizations, non-Italian citizen belonging to the NATO forces stationed in Italy.

Not to pay the Rai Fee the owner of the residential electricity user must submit a substitute declaration or self-certification model:

• through the appropriate web page
• through authorized intermediaries (Caf, professionals, etc.)
• by registered letter without envelope, to the address: Revenue Agency – Provincial Directorate I of Turin – TV license office – PO Box 22 – 10121 Turin. In this case it is necessary to attach a valid identification document
• by certified e-mail (PEC) on condition that the declaration itself is signed by digital signature, consistently with the provisions of articles 48 and 65 of legislative decree 7 March 2005, n. 82 (Digital Administration Code)

But be careful: in case the self-certification is not true, then declared falsehoodone is exposed to the risk of facing consequences also of a criminal nature.