RTUK is funded not from the general budget but from its own revenues. That is the foundation of its financial autonomy.
The Items of Revenue - Art. 41/1
| Subpara. | Revenue |
|---|---|
| a | The broadcasting licence fees to be taken from media service provider organisations |
| b | The annual television channel, multiplex capacity and radio frequency use fees to be taken from public and private organisations broadcasting from the terrestrial medium |
| c | The broadcast transmission authorisation fees to be taken from platform, multiplex and infrastructure operators and from the transmitter installation and operating company |
| ç | The one and a half per cent shares to be set aside from the monthly gross commercial communication revenues of media service providers, excluding programme sponsorship revenues |
| d | (Added: 27/12/2023-7491/67) The one and a half per cent shares to be set aside from the annual net sales amounts of media service provider organisations providing conditional access and of internet platform operators |
| e | The Treasury aid to be taken where necessary from the budget of the Speaker's Office of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
| f | Other revenues |
Programme Sponsorship Excluded
The Payment Timetable - Art. 42
| Fee / share | Time of payment |
|---|---|
| The broadcasting licence fee | The first instalment before the licence document is given; the rest in ten equal instalments, by the last day of February each following year |
| The broadcast transmission authorisation fee | In equal instalments within six months following the grant of the authorisation document |
| The annual channel / multiplex / frequency use fee | In four equal instalments in January, April, July and October each year |
| The commercial communication share (1.5%) | By the twentieth of the third month following the month in which it was obtained at the latest |
| The net sales share (1.5%) | By the end of July of the year following the year in which it was obtained |
The Declaration Obligation - Art. 42/3
(Amended: 4/7/2012-6353/63) - Media service providers declare the commercial communication revenues they obtain in each calendar month, by the last day of the following month, by a declaration whose procedures and principles of submission in form and content are determined by the Supreme Council. It is compulsory to submit a declaration even if no revenue has been obtained in the period concerned.
Books and Providing Information - Art. 42/4
Media service providers and those acting as intermediaries in obtaining commercial communication revenue keep their statutory book records in such a way as to ensure the correct determination of the revenues forming the basis of the calculation of the Supreme Council share. They are obliged to provide the information requested in an examination and to produce the books and documents.
| Stage | Period |
|---|---|
| Requesting information | Requested in writing; a period of 15 days is given for a reply |
| Additional period | For those in difficulty, on a written request before the period expires and an acceptable excuse, not exceeding one further period equal to the statutory period |
Administrative Fines - Art. 42/5
| Act | Penalty |
|---|---|
| Not submitting the declaration within the period | Five thousand Turkish lira |
| Not fulfilling, or fulfilling incompletely, the obligation to provide information and produce documents within the period | Ten thousand Turkish lira |
Audit and the Regulation - Art. 41/3
The procedures and principles relating to the audit by the Ministry of Finance of commercial communication revenues together with the accounts of the intermediary institutions, to the declaration of those revenues and to the payment of the shares to be taken under subparagraphs (ç) and (d), are governed by a regulation to be prepared by the Supreme Council after obtaining the opinion of the Ministry of Finance.
The Budget Request - Art. 41/2
Where necessary, the Supreme Council prepares a programme of the work it will do for each year and submits to the Speaker's Office of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey the amount of the appropriation it requests be set aside for that work from the budget of the Speaker's Office.
Summary
The Supreme Council's revenues are broadcasting licence fees, the annual channel, multiplex and frequency use fees, broadcast transmission authorisation fees, the 1.5% share to be set aside from the monthly gross commercial communication revenues of media service providers (excluding programme sponsorship revenues) and, added in 2023, the 1.5% share from the annual net sales amounts of conditional access providers and internet platform operators. The declaration is submitted every month even if no revenue has been obtained.