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5. What are the current assessment rates for the remainder, telephone relay, and the four USF assessments?

Assessment rates for the remainder assessment and the intrastate telephone relay assessment billings are established in the fall of each year.

The rates used for the fall of 2011 billings are as follows. With respect to the remainder assessment, the actual fiscal year (FY) 10 factor is .1045689003 percent. In addition, the advance FY 12 factor (approximately 10 percent higher than the actual FY 11 factor) is .1156901513 percent. In the first year that a company is subject to the assessment, it is required to pay both the actual and advance assessment amounts.  (In effect, in the first year a company's cash outlay for this assessment in 2011 would be estimated by multiplying the 2010 assessable revenues by .2202590516 percent, the sum of the actual FY 11 factor and the advance FY 12 factor.)  In the fall of 2012, the advance FY 12 assessment amount will be trued up based on actual 2011 revenues subject to the assessment and the actual FY 12 factor.

The rates for the fall of 2011 billings for the telephone relay assessment are: actual FY 11 factor of .0899465665 percent; and advance FY 12 factor of .0991982114 percent. (In the first year that a company is subject to the assessment, a company's cash outlay for 2011 would be estimated similar to the remainder assessment noted above by multiplying the 2010 assessable revenues by .1891447779 percent.) The advance FY 12 amount will likewise be trued up in the fall of 2012.

(View current and recent assessment rates)

Within the USF assessment category are four types of assessments:1

  1. The Commission USF programs--The current MONTHLY assessment rate, effective October 2011, is .02220 percent applied to annual revenues.
  2. TEACH--The current MONTHLY assessment rate, effective October 2011, is .06071 percent applied to annual revenues.
  3. UW-System--The current MONTHLY assessment rate, effective October 2011, is .003777 percent applied to annual revenues.
  4. DPI BadgerLink-Library Aids--The current MONTHLY assessment rate, effective October 2011, is .07092 percent applied to annual revenues.

The above USF assessment rates are subject to change in the fall of 2012, once updated assessable revenues and funding information become known.

1The main reason these rates are higher than last year is due to the Commission’s decision in docket 5-GF-104, effective October 2011, to exempt wholesale revenues from assessment.