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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. 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

2nd time

10 percent of taxes due,
not less than $75 or more than $250

$75

3rd time

10 percent of taxes due,
not less than $150 or more than $250

$150

4th time
(and any time after that)

$250

$250



Avoid penalties

You are less likely to make mistakes if you file your taxes electronically. The software highlights missing information and there are no paper forms, so the risk of filing in the wrong format is eliminated.


Other penalties

You also will have to pay a penalty if you file a late report.


Relevant laws and rules

Penalty amounts