Penalties for filing incomplete reports or filing on the wrong form
If you repeatedly make one of the following errors on your unemployment tax reports, you will have to pay a penalty.- Submit incomplete reports that do not include all of the required information. You must report the name, Social Security number, hours worked and wages for each employee every quarter.
- File in the wrong format. You must use a form that we provided or certified. Our scanning equipment cannot read other forms, including photocopies, so all information must be hand-keyed into the system.
Penalty schedule
We will send you a warning letter the first time you make one of these mistakes. After that, we will charge you a penalty if you make either mistake.|
| If you owe taxes
| If you don’t owe taxes
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| 2nd time
| 10 percent of taxes due,
not less than $75 or more than $250 | $75
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| 3rd time
| 10 percent of taxes due,
not less than $150 or more than $250 | $150
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| 4th time
(and any time after that) | $250
| $250
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