Notice of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) Credit Reduction Applicable in 2019

Published date27 November 2019
Citation84 FR 65423
Record Number2019-25742
SectionNotices
CourtEmployment And Training Administration,Labor Department
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2019)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 65423-65424]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-25742]
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                DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
                Employment and Training Administration
                Notice of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) Credit
                Reduction Applicable in 2019
                ACTION: Notice.
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                 Sections 3302(c)(2)(A) and 3302(d)(3) of the FUTA provide that
                employers in a state that has outstanding advances under Title XII of
                the Social Security Act on January 1 of two or more consecutive years
                are subject to a reduction in credits otherwise available against the
                FUTA tax for the calendar year in which the most recent such January 1
                occurs, if advances remain on November 10 of that year. Further,
                Section 3302(c)(2)(C) of FUTA provides for an additional credit
                reduction for a year if a state has outstanding advances on five or
                more consecutive January 1 and has a balance on November 10 for such
                years. Section 3302(c)(2)(C) also provides for waiver of this
                additional credit reduction and substitution of the credit reduction
                provided in Section 3302(c)(2)(B) if a state meets certain conditions.
                 Employers in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) were potentially liable
                for the additional credit reduction under Section 3302(c)(2)(C) of
                FUTA. The jurisdiction applied for the waiver of this additional credit
                reduction. The Employment and Training Administration determined that
                USVI met all of the criteria of the section necessary to qualify for
                the waiver of the additional credit reduction. Therefore employers in
                USVI will have no
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                additional credit reduction applied for calendar year 2019. However, as
                a result of having outstanding advances on each January 1 of 2010
                through 2019, which had outstanding balances on November 10, 2019,
                employers in USVI are subject to a FUTA credit reduction of 2.7 percent
                in 2019.
                John Pallasch,
                Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training.
                [FR Doc. 2019-25742 Filed 11-26-19; 8:45 am]
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