Annual Reports, Statements of Revenue, and Assessments

PURPOSE: This rule identifies annual report and assessment requirements for companies authorized to provide telecommunications and/or IVoIP services in Missouri. (1) Annual Reports and Statements of Revenues – The commission’s website contains forms, deadlines, and instructions for annual reports, including how to address common revenue reporting issues. (A) Any company registered to provide IVoIP service or with a certificate of service authority to provide nonswitched local, basic local, or interexchange telecommunications service shall file an annual report. A company’s Missouri jurisdictional retail revenue identified in the annual report will be provided to the Missouri Universal Service Fund (USF) administrator. (B) Statement of revenue report. Any company registered to provide IVoIP service or with a certificate of service authority to provide non-switched local, basic local, or interexchange telecommunications service, payphone service, or shared tenant services is required to file a statement of revenue report identifying a company’s Missouri jurisdictional revenue. (C) The deadline for a company to submit a completed annual report is April 15. 1. A company that is unable to meet the April 15 submission date deadline may request an extension of this deadline by filing a letter through EFIS. The letter shall include an explanation for failing to meet the deadline and the date by which the annual report will be filed. A. If a request for extension is made before the filing deadline, a thirty (30) day extension will automatically be granted. B. Requests for an extension greater than thirty (30) days or requests after the filing deadline for an extension will be handled on a case-by-case basis depending on the explanation contained in the request. (2) Assessments—Information about assessments may be found on the commission’s website or as otherwise indicated below. (A) Commission assessment. Any company required to submit a statement of revenue report is subject to the commission assessment, as provided in section 386.370, RSMo. This assessment is determined by a factor identified on the commission’s website that is then applied to a company’s Missouri jurisdictional revenue. (B) Missouri USF assessment. Any company required to submit an annual report to the commission is subject to the Missouri USF assessment. This assessment is based on a factor applied to a company’s net jurisdictional revenue as defined and explained in 4 CSR 240-31. Information about the Missouri USF assessment is posted on the Missouri USF administrator’s website www.missouriusf.com. (C) Relay Missouri assessment. Any company registered to provide IVoIP service or with a certificate of service authority to provide basic local telecommunications service is subject to the Relay Missouri assessment. A company is required to bill a designated amount to each access line and label it as the “Relay Missouri Surcharge.” A company may retain a portion of the revenue collected. These arrangements along with special considerations for applying this assessment are addressed on the commission’s website. (D) If a company has filed for bankruptcy, the company must notify the commission. Notice can be in the form of a letter filed into EFIS as a non-case related submission indicating the date of filing for bankruptcy, bankruptcy court, case number, and chapter number. A letter must be filed under the same tracking number when the company emerges from bankruptcy. AUTHORITY: sections 386.040, 386.250, 386.310, 392.450, and 392.461, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 240-28.012. Original rule filed April 12, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. Moved to 20 CSR 4240-28.012, effective Aug. 28, 2019. *Original authority: 386.040, RSMo 1939; 386.250, RSMo 1939, amended 1963, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996; 386.310, RSMo 1939, amended 1979, 1989, 1996; 392.450, RSMo 1987, amended 1996, 2008; and 392.461, RSMo 2011, amended 2013, 2014.