SGV bans fee collectors from the premises
The Swiss Trade Association (SGV) is continuing its campaign against device-independent radio and TV license fees. It is calling on its members to bar license fee collectors from their homes. Instructions and a sample letter have been available on the website since Monday.
For several months now, Billag has been asking small and medium-sized businesses across the board to pay reception fees for radio and TV sets. The SGV opposes that SMEs have to pay Billag fees, association director Hans-Ulrich Bigler told the newspaper Sonntag. As it says in the document on the Website the association assumes "that sooner or later SMEs will be completely exempted from paying radio and TV fees, true to the motto that legal entities can neither listen to the radio nor watch TV. At the heart of the letter, which traders can send to Billag - as well as a copy to the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) - is a ban on all employees and agents of the collection company, in addition to clarification of the reporting obligation issue. There is no legal basis for Billag employees to come into the company and snoop around like detectives, Bigler continued.
