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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Which States Charge a Payroll Tax to Help Fund Unemployment

Yesterday I posted a blog about Vermont legislative activity related to a possible new payroll tax paid by the employee to help fund unemployment benefits. Decided to do a bit more digging and found out that a couple other states are already assessing a payroll tax for this purpose. Those states are:

Alaska - charges 0.5% of wages

New Jersey - charges 0.3825% of wages generally and 0.0825% for workers of governmental reimbursers

Pennsylvania - 0.08% of wages in certain instances.

Just thought I'd pass this along.

Tammy Mullin

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:47:24 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

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