Video service provider aid is intended to reimburse municipalities for the mandated reduction in each communities video service provider (cable franchise) fee of .5% in 2020 and another .5% in 2021. The aid is based on the amounts reported to DOR on Form SL-310: Video Service Provider Report.

Each municipality that assesses a video service provider fee under s. 66.0420 (7) shall receive a payment equal to 0.5 percent of the gross receipts, as reported under sub. (2) (a), used as the basis for the actual fee revenues received by the municipality in 2018.

(b)    In 2021, each municipality that assesses a fee under s. 66.0420 (7) shall receive a payment equal to 1 percent of the gross receipts, as reported under sub. (2) (b), used as the basis for the actual fee revenues received by the municipality in 2019.

(c     Beginning in 2022, annually, each municipality that assesses a fee under s. 66.0420 (7) shall receive a payment under this section equal the amount it received in 2021.

The state will distribute this aid to each municipality on or before the 4th Monday of July (sec. 79.097(3)(b), Wis. Stats.)

NOTE: The video service provider aid estimate is posted under "Shared Revenue" on DOR's web page here (scroll down).

Starting on January 1, 2020, the video service fee (percentage) imposed by a municipality must equal the percentage applied on December 31, 2018 less 0.5 percent (sec. 66.0420(7)(b)2m., Wis. Stats.)