This was the vision of the OSA: a grift to tax big tech in general and surveil everybody and everything.
Companies with QWR above a particular threshold to be set by the Secretary of State will have a duty to pay fees under the regime. Ofcom has recommended that this threshold should be at or above £250 million, although it considers any figure between £200m and £500m would be appropriate.
Ofcom has recommended that the Secretary of State exempt providers of regulated services from payment of fees if their UK referable revenue is less than £10 million. ‘UK referable revenue’ is the revenues of a provider which may arise anywhere in the world but is attributable to the provision of one or more regulated services to UK users.
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