Contribution adjustments or refunds
If a business paid unemployment taxes by mistake, it can ask for that money back or get credit toward future payments. The business has three years from when the payment was due to make this request. The government office will look into it, and if they agree the money was collected by mistake, they will give a credit or refund — but without any extra interest added. However, if that money was already used to figure out someone's unemployment benefits and that decision is final, the business does not get a refund.
288.140. adjustments or res. — If not later than three years after the date on which any would have been required to be paid if due, an who has paid such contributions or interest thereon shall make for an adjustment thereof in connection with subsequent contribution payments, or for a refund thereof because such adjustment is not , and if the shall determine that such contributions or interest or any portion thereof was , the division shall make an adjustment thereof, without interest, in connection with subsequent contribution payments, or if such adjustment is not practicable, the division shall refund such payment, without interest, from the fund. The division may, , at any time and under such conditions and limitations as it may deem proper, make an adjustment or refund of contributions or interest paid thereon which the division finds has been erroneously collected, or any part thereof, if it finds there is why such adjustment or refund should be made. The division shall not be required to refund any contributions based upon wages payable or paid which have been included in a of a and which determination has become .
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Source & history notes
(L. 1951 p. 564, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1368)
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