The Polish Post Office is cleaning up. The tax office may confiscate your account or pension

The RTV subscription was checked by Poczta Polska. Officials used the registration system to control whether a given citizen had paid the subscription fee. It turns out that many people may receive a request for payment. The record holder in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship owed the tax office PLN 39,000.

You don’t pay the TV license fee? Be careful, because the tax office will get into your account

Radio and TV owners must pay the license fee. Payments must be made by the 25th of each month, but if we pay for the entire year in advance, we will receive a 10% discount. The fee for a TV set is PLN 27.30 per month and for a radio PLN 8.70. According to the National Broadcasting Council, 34.7% of Poles, i.e. 828,000, had to pay the license fee in 2022. people. Fees must be paid because we may receive a request for payment and the inspectors do not have to show up at our home. All they need to do is check the electronic register. Pensioners who do not pay the subscription fee may have their fees deducted, but Poczta Polska may collect the penalty from their tax, salary or bank account.

A resident of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is a record holder. He received a demand for payment of PLN 39,000. zloty.

According to “” in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, the tax office made as many as 880 seizures for unpaid RTV license fees. — The total amount recovered in this respect is over PLN 770,000. The highest one-time seizure amount in 2023 was approximately PLN 39,000, and the lowest was a dozen or so zlotys – explained the spokeswoman of the Tax Administration Chamber in Bydgoszcz, Kinga Błaszczyńska. Importantly, only people who have registered their receivers will receive a payment request. If someone has not reported that they own a radio and does not pay the license fee, they will not receive a financial penalty because they are not listed in the register.