Comment by andrewaylett
7 months ago
The maximum fines are 10% of "qualifying worldwide revenue", or £18M, whichever is larger. This is an exercise in stopping companies from claiming tiny revenues when they're actually much larger, rather than fining genuinely tiny companies (or individuals) a ridiculous multiple of their value (or wealth).
Plenty of things in UK law attract "an unlimited fine", but even that doesn't lead to people actually being fined amounts greater than all the money that's ever existed.
Sounds like a legally risky environment. One of the biggest things we've understood about the world over the last century has been that commerce flourishes under an environment of legal certainty.