A JOINT RESOLUTION

TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE Department of Employment and Workforce, RELATING TO Benefit Ratio for Zero Taxable Wages, DESIGNATED AS REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 5146, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1.   The regulations of the Department of Employment and Workforce, relating to Benefit Ratio for Zero Taxable Wages, designated as Regulation Document Number 5146, and submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 1 of the S.C. Code, are approved.

SECTION 2.   This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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SUMMARY AS SUBMITTED

BY PROMULGATING AGENCY.

R.47-6 instructs the Department on setting an employer's tax class when that employer has zero taxable wages. The Department proposes deleting obsolete sections that provide for assignment of employers to a tax class in the year 2011 only. The proposed amendment also removes references to the "2012 and subsequent" tax years for clarity, readability, and overall improvement of the text of the regulation.

The Notice of Drafting was published in the State Register on August 26, 2022.

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