Radiotjänst i Kiruna

It was a private corporation, formed in 1988 and based in Kiruna, and upon its formation took over the administration and handling of TV licences from the state-owned telecommunications company Televerket.

Under Swedish law, from 1956 until 2019, everyone who owned a television receiver was required to pay the license fee; the last figure was 2400 SEK per annum for the year 2018.

The fee was collected by Radiotjänst but administered by the Swedish National Debt Office (Riksgäldskontoret) by means of a special account, the so-called “rundradiokontot”.

Radiotjänst claimed that the current regulation for TV tax included any device that could theoretically be configured to receive a streamed video signal since at least one channel of Swedish public service TV was on the Internet in its entirety, but this interpretation was struck down by the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden on 13 June 2014.

[4] After the Riksdag voted on 14 November 2018 to change the licensing system from a television licence fee to a general public service tax on personal income, Radiotjänst i Kiruna was gradually wound down from then until its formal dissolution on 31 December 2019, with its functions being eventually taken over by the Swedish Tax Agency and the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency.