{"id":5432,"date":"2011-04-16T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:14:32","slug":"new-mexico-governor-martinez-vetoes-higher-unemployment-tax-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2011\/04\/new-mexico-governor-martinez-vetoes-higher-unemployment-tax-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Governor Martinez Vetoes Higher Unemployment Tax Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignright size-full wp-image-5429\" style=\"width:240px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Governor-Susana-Martinez.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Governor-Susana-Martinez.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Susana Martinez\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Governor Susana Martinez<\/div>\r\n<\/div>On April 8, 2011, Governor Susana Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NM-House-Executive-Message-No-40.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">vetoed<\/a> portions of <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NM-HB-59.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HB 59<\/a>. The portion vetoed would have changed the contribution schedule from a floating schedule for 2012 to Schedule 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule 3 Seen as Counter-Productive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Governor Martinez, \u201cI do not support increasing job-killing taxes on small businesses while we are struggling to recover from a recession. Making it more expensive for small businesses to hire people would be counter-productive to our efforts to put more New Mexicans back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protection of the Solvency of the Unemployment Fund Is a Priority<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Martinez also indicated support for returning to Schedule 1 for 2012. \u201cI have already begun working with members of the legislature on a plan that will protect the solvency of the fund and keep the contribution rate locked at Schedule 1, in order to help small businesses create more jobs. I intend to include this issue on the agenda for the upcoming special session on redistricting. I seek a bi-partisan solution that will protect the solvency of the Unemployment Fund without crippling job growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Vision Payroll for Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> for further information on changes to New Mexico unemployment taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Susana Martinez On April 8, 2011, Governor Susana Martinez vetoed portions of HB 59. The portion vetoed would have changed the contribution schedule from a floating schedule for 2012 to Schedule 3. Schedule 3 Seen as Counter-Productive According to Governor Martinez, \u201cI do not support increasing job-killing taxes on small businesses while we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1199,1547,1546,364,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432"}],"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=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}