What are the penalties that an employer maybe subject to if the employer misclassifies a worker?
Unemployment Taxes K.S.A.44-117 states: (a)(1) Penalties on past-due reports, interest on past-due contributions, payments in lieu of contributions and benefit cost payments. Any employer or any officer or agent of an employer, who fails to file any wage report or contribution return by the last day of the month following the close of each calendar quarter to which they are related shall pay a penalty as provided by this subsection (1) for each month or fraction of a month until the report or return is received by the secretary of labor. The penalty for each month or fraction of a month shall be an amount equal to .05% of the total wages paid by the employer during the quarter, except that no penalty shall be less than $25 nor more than $200 for each such report or return not timely filed.
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