FUTA with one employee: when does my LLC actually have to deposit anything?
Mexican founder, US LLC, one full-time employee in the States since March. I keep seeing federal unemployment tax described as 6 percent in one place and 0.6 percent in another, and my provider says we haven't needed to deposit any FUTA yet, which makes me nervous. Which rate is real, when does actual money have to move, and do we even file the annual unemployment return with just one person on staff?
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