Most Texas firms to pay slightly higher unemployment-benefits tax

AUSTIN – Most Texas businesses will pay a slightly higher unemployment-benefits tax next year, though it's nowhere near the big bump they absorbed this year. Nearly two-thirds of businesses pay the minimum state unemployment tax, and they will owe just over $70 per worker in 2011, up from almost $65 this year, the Texas Workforce Commission announced Tuesday. Last year, they paid about $23 per employee.

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