TV & radio tax

Just wanna clear a bit on TV license, it seems to be quite complicated and not many foreigners can understand correctly.

For TV, there are two kinds of money you have to pay:
- TV cable fee (connection fee): normally included in the Nebenkostet of the rented accommodation. About 22 CHF/month. You have to pay this no matter what you use TV or not
- TV license (content fee): you have to pay this if you have a TV. The cost is about 25CHF/month. The organization responsible to this is Billag (www.billag.ch).

The equivalent to TV license is radio license, about 13CHF/month.

Things that make you to pay TV or radio license:
- a TV for sure, or a computer with TV tuner or computer with subscription to TV streaming service (Cablecom)
- any radio receiving device such as radio player, radio controlled clock, mobile phone with FM function etc.

How to pay the TV & license fee:
- You can register at www.billag.ch and pay quarterly.
- Or wait until a Billag man knocks at your door and asks you whether you have a TV :D You might have to pay back dated from the day you moved in and a fine of 80CHF though they claim it's up to 5000CHF (so damn scary).

Link
http://www.international.ethz.ch/living_zh/TV.html