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Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
| Program Activity |
Actual 2007-08 |
Actual 2008-09 |
2009-10 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Estimates |
Planned Revenue |
Total Authorities |
Actual | |||
| Canadian Broadcasting | ||||||
| Broadcasting Licence Fees Part I | 20.7 | 21.7 | 14.9 | 14.9 | 15.2 | 15.2 |
| Canadian Telecommunications | ||||||
| Telecommunications Fees | 19.5 | 18.7 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 11.9 | 11.9 |
| Internal Services (note 3) | 13.9 | 13.9 | 14.2 | 14.2 | ||
| Total Respendable Revenue | 40.2 | 40.4 | 40.6 | 40.6 | 41.3 | 41.3 |
| Program Activity |
Actual 2007-08 |
Actual 2008-09 |
2009-10 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Estimates |
Planned Revenue |
Total Authorities |
Actual | |||
| Canadian Broadcasting | ||||||
| Broadcasting Licence Fees Part I | 7.4 | 5.6 | 1.8 | 10.7 | 3.9 | 11.3 |
| Broadcasting Licence Fees Part II (note 4) | 0.7 | - | - | - | 415.3 | |
| Canadian Telecommunications | ||||||
| Telecommunications Fees | 6.6 | 8.8 | 1.6 | 11.2 | 6.1 | 12.2 |
| Internal Services (note 3) | 2.0 | 2.0 | 4.3 | (0.3) | ||
| Other Revenue (note 4 & 5) | 1.3 | 0.1 | - | - | 18.7 | |
| Total Non-respendable Revenue | 16.0 | 14.5 | 5.4 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 457.2 |
| Total Revenue (note 6) | 56.2 | 54.9 | 46.0 | 64.5 | 55.6 | 498.5 |
Note 1 The CRTC retains respendable revenue to fund its operating budget (i.e. vote-netted revenue).
Note 2 Non-respendable revenue for Part I broadcasting licence fees and CRTC telecommunications fees recover the costs incurred by other federal government departments for services (excluding Industry Canada spectrum management) rendered without charge to the CRTC as well as the statutory costs of employee benefit plans. Part II broadcasting fees are also considered to be non-respendable
revenue.
Note 3 Internal Services are part of the Part I broadcasting licence fees and the telecom fees.
Note 4 In FY 2007-2008, the CRTC collected $674,000 in outstanding Part II licence fees pertaining to the 2005 and 2006 return years. The CRTC did not assess or collect any revenues for Part II licence fees for 2007-08 and 2008-09. Further to the Government’s announcement on October 7, 2009, the CRTC recognized, during FY 2009-10, in the Public Accounts of Canada and its financial
statements, the total amount of Part II fees and accrued interest that would have been payable by broadcasters covering the three year period FY 2007-08, FY 2008-09 and FY 2009-10 (i.e. for those fees that would have been due and payable on 30 November 2007, 2008 and 2009). This amounted to $433,876,668 ($415,279,112 in fees and $ 18,568,699 in interest). This total amount was
also written off by the CRTC as a bad debt expense in accordance with the authority provided for in the Government’s remission order.
Note 5 Other revenues is comprised of a) interest on overdue accounts receivable for CRTC broadcasting licence fees, telecommunications fees and administrative monetary penalties (AMPS), b) Do Not Call List (DNCL) AMPS, c) miscellaneous non tax revenue (e.g. access to information (ATI) fees) and d) gain on disposal of non-capital assets to outside parties. A breakdown by category is noted in the
table below:
Note 6 All revenues are credited to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Note 7 Summary of CRTC Fees Assessed:
| Part I Broadcasting fees | 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 |
$28.1M $27.3M $33.5M |
| The total Part I fees include the respendable and non respendable for Broadcasting and Internal Services on behalf of broadcasting activities. | ||
| Telecom Fees | 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 |
$26.1M $27.5M $31.0M |
| The total Telecom fees include the respendable and non respendable for Telecom and Internal Services on behalf of telecommunication activities. | ||
