The Texas Workforce Commission has published the unemployment tax rates for 2011.  The minimum tax rate increases from .72 percent to .78 percent.  The maximum tax rate; however, will drop from 8.60 percent to 8.25 percent.  The average unemployment tax rate will increase from 1.83 to 2.03 percent and the average experience tax rate will be 1.96

Last week, the El Paso Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment in favor of an employer on an unemployment benefit eligibility issue where the employee, abandoned his job.  The employee was a Nationwide Financed Agent from January 2003 until November 2005.  A Financed Agent is an employee-agent of Nationwide who starts an insurance agency and operates it to the

In this post I want to outline a series of steps an employer can implement that may decrease its unemployment tax rate and taxes.  The state unemployment tax rate is the only tax rate that an employer can effectively control.  Because the tax rate is calculated over a three year rolling average, it may take a year or two to start