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Broadcasting Act 1989

Broadcasting Standards Authority

30B: Payment of annual levy

You could also call this:

"Broadcasters with over $500,000 revenue pay an annual fee to the Authority."

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You pay an annual levy if you are a broadcaster and your total revenue is more than $500,000. You calculate the levy as per section 30C. You pay the levy for each year you broadcast programmes in New Zealand. You do not pay the levy for the year you start broadcasting in New Zealand. You pay the levy by 31 July of the year you give your return to the Authority. The return is given under section 30A. You must pay the levy if you broadcast in New Zealand and your revenue is over $500,000. The levy is for each year you broadcast programmes. You pay it to the Authority by a certain date.

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Part 3Broadcasting Standards Authority

30BPayment of annual levy

  1. Where a return given to the Authority under section 30A by a broadcaster shows that, in the financial year of the broadcaster to which the return relates, the broadcaster had a total revenue of more than $500,000, that return shall be accompanied by an annual levy calculated in accordance with section 30C.

  2. The annual levy shall be payable in respect of each financial year of the broadcaster during which programmes are broadcast within New Zealand by the broadcaster.

  3. Where a broadcaster commences broadcasting within New Zealand during the financial year of the broadcaster to which the return under section 30A relates, no annual levy shall be payable by the broadcaster in respect of that financial year.

  4. The annual levy payable under subsection (1) shall be payable by the broadcaster not later than 31 July of the year in which the return is required to be given to the Authority.

Notes
  • Section 30B: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 53).
  • Section 30B(1): amended, on , by section 6 of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 42).