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This is an explainer I wrote for immigrants: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/gez-rundfunkbeitrag

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Perhaps I need to make improvements to the text. Sometimes you've been around for so long that you forget what confuses people.

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Judging by that link I guess they changed it to everyone pays instead of just those with TVs? When I lived in Berlin twenty years ago, I remember TV tax enforcers would go door to door to try to find people with TVs without paying the tax. The advice I was given by Berliners was basically never to talk to random strangers coming to the door...not surprised they would change the system.

Yes they changed it because they now also stream their program on the internet (well, parts of it…) so you don't need a TV anymore to receive it.

Totally fascinating. Thank you!

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