<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">French ham radio licence fee</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">REF reports the Finance committee of the Senate has tabled an amendment to the French Finance Act 2019 concerning the annual amateur radio license fee <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The annual license fee in France is currently 45.73 euros and yields about 600,000 euros. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The amendment says that collecting the license fee costs 409.6% of the amount recovered and proposes &quot;removing this tax&quot;.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">REF notes &quot;amendment has yet to pass to the Assembly and perhaps to the Joint Committee, it seems that there has been an echo of our proposal at (<a href="http://telecharger.r-e-f.org/Docs/Contribution%20du%20REF%20%C3%A0%20la%20consultation%20publique%20DGE%20-%20Mai%202018.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">see this link</a>) &quot;<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">REF in Google English <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/FranceREF" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://tinyurl.com/FranceREF</a></p></div>