Kansas Unemployment Tax Rates to Rise in 2021

Unemployment tax rates for Kansas employers are to be higher in 2021 than in 2020, a spokesman for the state Labor Department said Oct. 14.

For 2021, a solvency adjustment is not to be in effect, the spokesman said. For 2020, a solvency adjustment reduced unemployment tax rates by 0.5%.

Effective Jan. 1, 2021, tax rates are to range from 0.2% to 5.4% for positive-rated employers and from 5.6% to 7.6% for negative-rated employers.

For 2021, unchanged from 2020, the standard tax rate for new employers is to be 2.7% and the tax rate for new construction employers is to ...