Georgia Releases 2019 Unemployment Tax Rates

Georgia’s range of unemployment tax rates for 2019 is to be unchanged from 2018, a spokesman for the state Labor Department told Bloomberg Tax on Dec. 20.

Effective Jan. 1, 2019, unemployment tax rates for experienced employers are to range from 0.04 percent to 8.1 percent, unchanged from 2018, the spokesman said in an email. The tax rate for new employers is to be 2.7 percent.

All tax rates, except the minimum and maximum rates for experienced employers, are to include an administrative assessment of 0.06 percent.

Georgia’s unemployment-taxable wage base is to be $9,500 in 2019, unchanged from 2018. ...