Enforcement Bureau Adjusts Penalties Upward for Inflation
The Enforcement Bureau raised the dollar amount of forfeiture penalties to adjust for inflation, said an order issued Friday. The increase is required by a 2015 law and will affect penalties assessed after the effective date of the increase, including…
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penalties stemming from violations that predated the increase, the order said. For the 2017 adjustment for each penalty, the FCC used a multiplier (1.01636) calculated by the Office of Management and Budget and then rounded the result up to the nearest dollar. The penalty for common carrier discrimination, for example, went from $11,362 to $11,548, the order said. The order's effective date will be the day it's published in the Federal Register, the order said