This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the test for employee state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax coverage and what constitutes SUI taxable wages in Mississippi. It covers topics such as the taxable wage base, contribution rates, experience rating methods, SUTA dumping prevention, voluntary contributions, joint or combined accounts, quarterly reporting requirements, penalties for late filing, benefit overpayments, multiple worksite reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
As mandated by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, covered employers must submit the Quarterly Combined Withholding, Wage Reporting and Unemployment Insurance Return Form - Attachment, NYS-45-ATT.
As mandated by the Internal Revenue Service, every employer that, for a calendar quarter of the current or preceding calendar year, paid at least $1,500 in wages or employed at least one employee during some part of a day in any 20 or more different weeks must file Form 940, Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment (FUTA) Tax Return, on an annual basis.