Legislature sends bill to Parkinson’s desk to adjust unemployment taxes
Topeka ? The Kansas House has sent Gov. Mark Parkinson a bill adjusting the taxes paid by businesses into the state’s unemployment trust fund.
Wednesday’s vote in the House was 122-0. The Senate passed the measure last week.
The bill is aimed at shoring up the unemployment trust fund.
The measure rewrites a state law that otherwise would force a $209 million increase this year in taxes paid into a state trust fund that finances unemployment benefits. Record claims last year depleted the fund, and Kansas must borrow from the federal government to pay all this year’s claims.
Business owners and groups complained to legislators because companies with little or no history of claims from former workers faced the highest percentage tax increases.
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