Skopje, 21 May 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services has prepared an Analysis on Establishing the Justifiability of Tax Incentives for the Regional and Local Broadcasters so as to determine what measures of support need to be introduced to advance the development and strengthen the economic sustainability of regional and local broadcasters, starting above all from their key role in ensuring media pluralism and development of democratic processes in society.
The preparation of this document was projected in the Strategic Plan of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services covering the period from 2024 to 2028.
The data on the economic operations of the regional and local broadcasters (total revenues, revenue structure and achieved financial results from performing their operations in the period from 2018 to 2023), used in the Analysis, were provided by the broadcasters themselves (as part of fulfilling the requirement under Article 15 of the Media Law, according to which they are obliged to submit these data to the regulator, no later than March 31st of each year, using a special form designed by the Agency), and their validity was verified by comparing the data presented in the broadcasters’ annual final accounts.
The analysis can be downloaded at the following link.