Retailers want rollback of Fla. unemployment tax

Nov 19, 2009 1 min read

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Some Florida businesses want to partly roll back an unemployment compensation tax increase after being shocked by its magnitude.

Florida Retail Federation President Rick McAllister said Thursday that his group will ask the state to keep the taxable wage for each employee at it’s current level of $7,000 instead of going up to $8,500 next year under a new law.

That would mean an increase in the current minimum tax of $8.40 per employee to $60 instead of $100.30 that state officials announced Wednesday, McAllister said. The maximum tax would remain unchanged at $378 instead of increasing to $459.

McAllister said the federation would take up the issue with Gov. Charlie Crist’s staff next week.