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The California Employment Development Department (EDD) is a state agency responsible for administering unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and paid family leave benefits to eligible workers in California. The EDD also provides workforce services, such as job placement assistance and training programs, to help Californians find and maintain employment.
Your salary or payroll is the foundation of your compensation — it’s the primary form of payment you receive for your work. But beyond that basic paycheck, there’s another layer known as fringe benefits. These are additional perks that companies can offer, enhancing the value of a job and making the overall work experience more rewarding.
Fringe benefits can have a significant impact on both businesses and employees. For employees, they can mean extra financial support, greater health and well-being, and ways to achieve a better work-life balance.
Conventional wisdom holds that only death and taxes are certain. The tricky part, however, is that sometimes tax obligations aren’t certain. For multi-state business owners, determining what you owe (and where you owe it) can be complicated.
Consider the following brain-teaser: A Wisconsin-based DTC pickle company grows cucumbers outside of Milwaukee, pickles them on site, and ships them to individual consumers all over the country. As the business grows, it retains the help of a New Jersey-based marketing professional and a fulfillment consultant in Michigan. Where does this business owe state taxes? In Wisconsin only? In Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Jersey? In every state where a consumer buys a pickle?
If you’re a stakeholder in HR, finance, or even the founder of a small to mid-sized company, you already know state compliance can get tricky, especially when it comes to fluctuating tax rates.
With that in mind, let’s discuss state unemployment insurance, commonly abbreviated SUI.
What Is SUI? State unemployment insurance, or SUI, is an employer-funded tax designed to provide short-term financial support to employees who have been laid off or terminated without misconduct. If you’re operating a U.S.-based business — especially one that spans multiple states — you’ll find that SUI tax rates are diverse.
Kaitlin Edwards |Nov 5, 2023
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