Kansas to Determine Unemployment Tax Rates With New Schedules

Kansas unemployment tax rates may be determined with one of 13 tax rate schedules created to maintain the balance of the state unemployment trust fund, under a measure signed April 26 by Gov. Laura Kelly (D).

The measure (H.B. 2196), effective starting with tax rates determined for 2022, said that tax rates may be determined using a standard rate schedule, one of six solvency rate schedules, or one of six credit schedules. The schedule in effect is to continue to be determined by the state’s average high cost multiple, an estimate of the number of years that the ...