Retailers may pay more unemployment assistance taxes

Legislators could soon be asked to impose a higher tax on employers to cover the administrative expenses of the state’s unemployment assistance program, but a lower tax to fund the program’s payouts to unemployed people, sparking concerns of an unequal impact on businesses.The state’s Reemployment Assistance Advisory Council approved a plan this month to ask legislators for the cha...

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