Licence fees for commercial broadcasters

We have fees for commercial broadcasters. These fees are called commercial broadcasting taxes.

These fees do not apply to:

• national broadcasters
• community broadcasters
• any other apparatus licences 

Fees for commercial broadcasters are detailed in the commercial broadcasting transmitter licence fee schedule.

You have 28 days to pay your invoice.

If you don’t pay on time, there are penalties. Our current penalty rate is 20% per year.

If the person who handles invoices in your organisation changes, you should tell us.

We charge licence fees each year.

Your first licence fee will be due after we issue your licence and give you an invoice.

We will send you an assessment and invoice on, or soon after, each anniversary of when we issued the licence.

The Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) (Transmitter Licence Tax Rebate) Rules 2022 provide for 2 years of rebates for holders of commercial television and radio broadcasting licences that were previously eligible for transitional support payments. These rebates began to be applied on 10 June 2022.

This legislation helps us determine how we charge for commercial broadcasting transmitter licences:

• Broadcasting Services Act 1992
• Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Act 2017
• Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) (Individual Transmitter Amounts) Determination 2017
• Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) (Transmitter Licence Tax Rebate) Rules 2022

If you have questions about licence fees for commercial broadcasting, email us.