{"id":5150,"date":"2011-03-07T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2011-03-26T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T20:46:26","slug":"massachusetts-releases-payroll-unemployment-tax-rates-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2011\/03\/massachusetts-releases-payroll-unemployment-tax-rates-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Releases Payroll Unemployment Tax Rates for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MA EOLWD Secretary Joanne F. Goldstein<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD)<\/a> has released the 2011 contribution rates. Employers apply the rates to taxable payroll to determine the amount of tax due.<\/p>\n

Many 2011 Employer Rates Remain Unchanged<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although the new construction employer rate and the solvency assessment rate have both increased,\u00a0the\u00a0 new non-construction employer rate, the minimum rate, the maximum positive rate, and the maximum rate all\u00a0remain unchanged. The following table provides rates for 2011 and 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
Rate<\/th>2011 <\/th>2010 <\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
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New non-construction employer rate<\/td> 2.83%<\/td> 2.83%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
New construction employer rate<\/td> 8.62%<\/td> 7.84%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Minimum rate<\/td> 1.26%<\/td> 1.26%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Maximum positive rate<\/td> 6.14%<\/td> 6.14%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Maximum rate<\/td>12.27%<\/td>12.27%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t
Solvency assessment<\/td> 1.71%<\/td> 1.22%<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Solvency Assessment Is not Paid Directly<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Solvency Assessment is applied by the Division of Unemployment Assistance (DUA)<\/a> when calculating an employer\u2019s Statement of Account Balance. It is applied to the employer\u2019s taxable wages for the period.<\/p>\n

Still Have Questions on 2011 Massachusetts Unemployment Tax Rates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact Vision Payroll<\/a> for further information on 2011 Massachusetts unemployment tax rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MA EOLWD Secretary Joanne F. Goldstein The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) has released the 2011 contribution rates. Employers apply the rates to taxable payroll to determine the amount of tax due. Many 2011 Employer Rates Remain Unchanged Although the new construction employer rate and the solvency assessment rate have both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1064,871,1484,1485,13,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}