Rhode Island payroll setup for your first hire

One registration opens withholding and the labor-department taxes.

The form is the Business Application and Registration, called BAR. The door is the Division of Taxation combined online registration. The same screen is linked from the Division of Taxation registration page. That page says the application can register three things. A permit to make sales at retail. An income-tax withholding account, including withholding for pensions or trusts. A Rhode Island unemployment insurance account. That unemployment account includes employment security, temporary disability insurance, and the job development fund tax.

The BAR screen says the same three doors, and it says the online form is for a new business only. Changes to an existing account are a phone call, 401-574-8938. The BAR screen also says only the cigarette dealer’s license requires a fee. It says the litter-control permit and fee ended for periods on or after January 1, 2024. The Division of Taxation registration page is older. It still says the retail-sales permit, including a litter fee and a cigarette license, requires a registration fee. Withholding is not on either fee list. Unemployment is not on either fee list. Temporary disability insurance is not on either fee list. The job development fund tax is not on either fee list. Do not pay a withholding registration fee from a vendor checklist.

The employer-tax FAQ says you need the BAR, online. It says the Rhode Island employer account number is created when a new employer files that BAR and releases the first payroll. A packet is then mailed. The liability date is the first date wages were paid in Rhode Island. The unemployment account cannot be set up before that date. The account number cannot be given before that date. A sole proprietor or a partnership with no workers other than the owners does not register. Only a shop that has hired an employee registers. Hold the account number the office assigns. Do not substitute a federal Employer Identification Number, called an EIN, for that number. The withholding account is a different number on the same BAR.

The paper Business Application and Registration, Form BAR revised January 2024, says in Section E that the unemployment account will be set up within 90 days of the liability date, or the actual first date wages are paid. That is the state’s setup window on the paper form. It is not a fine for filing the form late. These pages do not print a 10-day, 15-day, 20-day, or 30-day deadline to file the registration. This is not California’s $100-in-a-quarter test. There is no 15-day California registration clock on these pages.

Register paycheck withholding with the Division of Taxation.

Rhode Island takes state income tax from paychecks. The income-tax office is the Division of Taxation. This is not Alaska, where there is no state paycheck-withholding account. This is not New Hampshire, which does not run a broad wage income-tax withholding path. A federal Employee’s Withholding Certificate (Form W-4) still sits with the IRS.

R.I. Gen. Laws § 44-30-71 says every employer maintaining an office or transacting business in Rhode Island, who pays wages subject to Rhode Island personal income tax to a resident or a nonresident, shall withhold. The statute says an employee gets the same number of Rhode Island withholding exemptions as the federal count. It says an employer may rely on the number of federal withholding exemptions the employee claims. Regulation 280-RICR-20-55-10 uses a shorter sentence. A Rhode Island employer means an employer maintaining an office or transacting business in this state. Withholding is required when the wages are subject to federal income-tax withholding and any part of the wages was for services performed in Rhode Island. The same regulation says employers must have employees complete Form RI-W4, the state withholding allowance certificate. The statute lets you rely on the federal exemption count. The regulation asks for Form RI-W4. Keep both.

The withholding page sets the payment clock by how much you withheld. If you withhold $600 or more in any calendar month, you pay weekly. The week runs Sunday through Saturday. The money is due the next Monday, or Tuesday if Monday is a holiday. If you withhold $50 or more but less than $600 in any calendar month, you pay monthly, within 20 days after the month ends. If you withhold less than $50 in any calendar month, you pay quarterly. That quarterly payment is due on or before the last day of the month after the quarter. A weekend or holiday due date moves to the next business day. The example on that page is a quarter ending March 31, due April 30. Most first paychecks in a small shop start on the quarterly payment line only if every month stays under $50. Do not assume that. Count the month.

The payment clock is not the return clock. Section E of the paper Business Application and Registration says Form RI-941, the return used to report Rhode Island withholding, is filed quarterly regardless of the amount withheld each month and regardless of the payment frequency. A shop that pays weekly still files Form RI-941 every quarter. A shop that pays monthly still files Form RI-941 every quarter. The withholding page attaches Form RI-941 to the under-$50 quarterly payment. Keep both. The return is quarterly. The payment can be weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

The annual reconciliation is Form RI W-3. It is due on or before January 31, or when the business ends. The withholding page says the total on that reconciliation should match the payments and the W-2 forms. The same page says every employer gets a Withholding Account Summary in December. That notice names the due dates for payment and for return filings for the coming year. A quarterly unemployment report does not close Form RI-941. Form RI-941 does not close the unemployment report.

Two electronic rules sit side by side. Section 44-30-71 says a person who withholds and has ten or more employees must pay by electronic funds transfer or another electronic means. A failure adds 5 percent of the amount, or $500 per required payment, whichever is less, unless there was reasonable cause and the failure was not willful neglect. The withholding page uses a dollar test that started January 1, 2020. An employer that withheld an average of $200 or more per month in the previous calendar year must file the return and remit by electronic means. A missed electronic payment is 5 percent of the tax or $500, whichever is less. A missed electronic return adds $50. A shop hiring its first employee in 2026 has no previous calendar year for that $200 average. A shop with one employee is under the statute’s ten-employee line. Use the notice the Division of Taxation sends in December. That notice is the Withholding Account Summary. It names the due dates for the coming year.

Unemployment starts when one person works some portion of a day.

The unemployment tax is often called SUTA, state unemployment tax, or SUI, state unemployment insurance. Official pages say employment security, or unemployment insurance. The office is the Employer Tax Unit in the Department of Labor and Training. It is not the Division of Taxation’s withholding desk. It is not Maine’s Department of Labor. It is not Alaska Employment Security Tax.

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-42-3 defines an employer to include an employing unit that, for some portion of a day on or after January 1, 1956, has or had one or more individuals in employment within any calendar year. Domestic service employment is the exception in that sentence. This is not Maine’s test of $1,500 in a quarter or one person in 20 weeks. This is not a $1,500-quarter test. A regular shop with one employee for part of one day is in.

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-42-8 exempts domestic service in a private home when the household did not pay cash wages of $1,000 or more in any calendar quarter in the current or preceding calendar year. The same section exempts work for a sole proprietor by that owner’s son, daughter, or spouse. The employer-tax FAQ prints the same lines. A spouse-only shop, or a shop with only the owner, is not the regular one-employee path. This page is the regular shop that hires someone else.

The employer-tax FAQ says the liability date is the first date wages were paid in Rhode Island. The account cannot open before that date. The quarterly report is Form TX-17, the Quarterly Tax and Wage Report. The FAQ says quarterly taxes are due the last day of the month after the quarter: January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31. File even when you need the wage section. The 2026 Form TX-17 says every Rhode Island employer completes the employee wage section, including an employer that does not complete the tax section. If no wages were paid, write “None.”

In 2026 the cash rate is 1.21 percent. Two official pages print that rate in two ways.

Read both. Do not collapse them into one line and then add the pieces again.

The December 18, 2025 rate release says the 2026 unemployment taxable wage base for most employers is $30,800. That is $1,000 more than the 2025 base of $29,800. Employers at the highest tax rate use a base set $1,500 higher, $32,300. The release says UI Tax Schedule F is in effect for 2026, with rates from 0.9 percent to 9.4 percent. Schedule G was the 2025 schedule. Those Schedule F rates are reduced by 0.21 percent to offset the Job Development Assessment. The new-employer rate for 2026 is 1.21 percent. That 1.21 percent includes the 0.21 percent Job Development Assessment.

The Employer Tax Unit page prints the pieces. For 2026, the employment-security taxable wage base is $30,800 per employee, or $32,300 if the experience rate is 9.19 or higher. The 2026 new-employer employment-security rate on that page is 1.00 percent. The Job Development Fund, called JDF, uses the same wage base. Its rate is 0.21 percent. The page says each employer’s employment-security rate is reduced by 0.21 percent each year so the Job Development Fund does not raise the tax. One percent plus 0.21 percent is 1.21 percent. That is the same new-employer cash rate the rate release prints as one number. The 1.00 percent is the reduced employment-security piece. The 1.21 percent is the cash rate that already includes the 0.21 percent. Do not add 0.21 percent on top of 1.21 percent.

The 2026 Form TX-17 uses the same split. Line 3 is employment-security taxable wages, the first $30,800, or the first $32,300 if the employment-security rate is 9.19 or higher. Line 4 is your employment-security rate. Line 6 is Job Development Fund taxable wages on that same base. Line 7 is the Job Development Fund rate, printed as 0.21 percent. Use the rate on your notice. The Employer Tax Unit says that rate is on the TX-17 mailed each quarter and on the January notice. It also says the rate shows in the online TX-17 portal after you sign in. The form itself prints a web address of uitax.ri.gov. The instructions also say you may file the report at the online TX-17 portal. Both doors are on the form. A payroll login is not either filing.

The 2026 unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance quick reference prints the same tax split. Its header says Effective July 1, 2026. The new-employer employment-security rate on that sheet is 1.00 percent, not including the 0.21 percent Job Development Assessment. The employee wage deduction is 1.1 percent of the first $100,000. There is no employee deduction for unemployment tax. Use the December 18, 2025 rate release and the Employer Tax Unit page for the calendar-year 2026 tax rates. The July sheet also prints benefit figures. It prints a Temporary Caregiver Insurance duration of 8 weeks. The December rate release says that benefit pays up to seven weeks. The tax rates on this page stay with the December release and the Employer Tax Unit page.

This is not Maine’s 2026 combined rate of 2.54 percent on a $12,000 wage base. This is not Alaska’s employee unemployment share of 0.50 percent. Rhode Island’s 0.21 percent Job Development Assessment is an employer assessment inside the 1.21 percent cash rate. It is not a deduction from the employee’s pay.

Temporary Disability Insurance is an employee deduction. It is not unemployment tax.

Temporary Disability Insurance, called TDI, is not SUTA. The rate release says TDI protects wages lost to a non-work illness or injury. It says Temporary Caregiver Insurance, called TCI, pays up to seven weeks to bond with a new child or to care for a seriously ill family member. TCI is not a separate state program. TCI is part of TDI. The release says TDI is paid by employees, not employers, through a payroll tax.

For 2026, the release sets the TDI taxable wage base at $100,000. That is $10,800 more than the 2025 base of $89,200. The TDI contribution rate is 1.1 percent, down from 1.3 percent in 2025. The maximum TDI contribution in 2026 is $1,100. The release says that maximum is a decrease of $59.60 from the 2025 maximum of $1,159.60. The release prints the words “an decrease.” The arithmetic is a decrease. 1.1 percent of $100,000 is $1,100. The Employer Tax Unit page prints the same 2026 TDI numbers on their own lines: wage base $100,000, rate 1.1 percent. The 2026 Form TX-17 prints line 9 as TDI taxable wages, the first $100,000, times 1.1 percent.

The employer withholds the employee’s TDI and sends it quarterly with Form TX-17, in the same payment as employment security and the Job Development Fund. Line 11 says enter the calculated TDI tax or the amount withheld, whichever is greater. Line 12 is one total. One check is payable to RIET. R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-40-4 says if the employer fails to deduct the employee’s contribution when wages are paid, or fails to deduct it in the next payroll period, the employer alone is liable for those contributions. The employer-tax FAQ quotes that section. A missed deduction becomes the employer’s bill. It does not turn TDI into unemployment tax.

Workers who are 14 or 15 do not pay this deduction. The employer-tax FAQ says minors 14 or 15 years of age are exempt from the TDI rules. No TDI deduction should come out of their pay. They stay covered for unemployment insurance. R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-40-2.1 says minors 14 and 15 years of age are exempt from chapters 39 through 41, the temporary disability chapters. That exemption is not an exemption from unemployment tax.

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-40-1 is the employee-contribution statute. It sets the wage-base formula and the fund-cost rate. The 2026 dollar base and the 1.1 percent rate are the figures in the December 18, 2025 release and on the Employer Tax Unit page. Use those 2026 figures. Do not use the statute’s older floor of $38,000 as this year’s base.

This deduction is not Vermont’s Child Care Contribution. That Vermont item sits on a withholding return. Rhode Island’s TDI sits on Form TX-17. It is not Alaska’s 0.50 percent employee share of unemployment tax. Alaska’s employee share is unemployment tax. Rhode Island’s employee deduction is TDI.

Form TX-17 is one quarterly file. Withholding is a different return.

The Employer Tax Unit processes Form TX-17 and the payments for employment security, the Job Development Fund, and TDI. The report is due the last day of the month after the quarter: January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31. File at uitax.ri.gov or at the online TX-17 portal. The employer-tax FAQ and the 2026 form print the same late-file math. Interest is 1.5 percent per month. Failure to file the quarterly tax report is $25. Failure to pay is 10 percent of the taxes due, for each fund. Late wage information is $25, plus $25 for each later month, and that wage penalty stops at $200 for one report. Those dollars are the unemployment-tax file. They are not the withholding penalties on Form RI-941.

Employers with 25 or more employees must submit wage data electronically. The 2026 Form TX-17 says that under optional reporting formats. The employer-tax FAQ says the same thing, including a payroll service that files for an employer with 25 or more employees. A shop with one employee is under that line. The form says an employer with fewer than 25 employees who cannot file electronically may use the additional wage filing form. The form also says you may file online at the TX-17 portal. Electronic wage data is not the new-hire report.

New hire goes to the Office of Child Support Services within 14 days.

The new-hire report is a list of who you just hired. It is not a box on Form TX-17. It is not a box on Form RI-941. The agency page is the Office of Child Support Services, called OCSS. That office keeps the Rhode Island State Directory of New Hires. The page says report every new hire or rehire within 14 days of employment. If you report electronically or magnetically, use two transmissions a month, not less than 12 days apart and not more than 16 days apart.

Mail on that page goes to the Rhode Island State Directory of New Hires, P.O. Box 335, Holbrook, MA 02343. The fax is 888-430-6907. The phone is 1-888-870-6461. The page links the online report to the Rhode Island New Hire Reporting Directory at ri-newhire.com. You can also fax a Form W-4. The footer on ri-newhire.com still prints P.O. Box 485, Norwell, MA 02061, and the same fax. Use the Holbrook address on the Office of Child Support Services page.

That page lists the report fields as the employee’s name, address, and Social Security number; the employer’s name, address, and federal identification number; and whether dependent health coverage is available and the date the employee may qualify. It does not print a General Laws section number. R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-24-5 is the legislature text for the same report. It says 14 days on a Form W-4 or its equivalent, or twice a month if the file is electronic or magnetic. It says those two transmissions are not less than 12 days apart and not more than 15 days apart. It also lists the address for income-withholding orders and garnishments. It does not list a date of birth. The Office of Child Support Services page says not more than 16 days apart. The statute says not more than 15 days apart. File on the spacing the Office of Child Support Services page prints, 12 to 16 days, and keep the statute beside it.

R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-24-3 says a rehire is the first day the employee is owed compensation after a termination that lasted at least 60 days. A temporary layoff or an unpaid leave is not that termination. The Office of Child Support Services page does not print that 60-day line. It does say the report covers a hire or a rehire.

The Office of Child Support Services page says an employer who fails to report a new hire may be liable for a penalty of $20 for each violation. If it is demonstrated that the employee conspired with the employer, the fine is $500. Both the employee and the employer are responsible. R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-24-7 says a civil penalty of $20 for each violation, and $500 if the employer conspired with the employee. Liability is joint and several. Use the $20 and $500 figures. Do not use $25. The directory’s law page still prints an older paragraph. That page says a rehire follows a termination of at least twelve consecutive weeks. It lists a date of birth. It says the civil penalty is $25. That page is not the penalty text on the Office of Child Support Services page.

This is not Maine’s 7-day report to the Department of Health and Human Services. This is not Vermont’s 10-day report to the Department of Labor. This is not Alaska’s 20-day report to the Child Support Enforcement Division. Form TX-17 does not satisfy the 14-day clock.

Workplace injury insurance is due when the shop has one or more employees.

Rhode Island calls this workers’ compensation. It is a policy you buy. It is not North Dakota’s exclusive state fund. It is not Washington’s exclusive state fund. It is not Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation monopoly. It is not Texas optional coverage. It is not Wyoming’s extra-hazardous state fund. The unemployment account does not sell this policy.

The workers’ compensation FAQ says employers with one or more employees must carry workers’ compensation insurance. It says the same thing again: all Rhode Island employers with one or more employees must obtain that insurance. It lists who is out. Sole proprietors. Partners. Certain real estate, agricultural, and domestic-service employees. Independent contractors. Police, firefighters, and federal employees sit in other programs. A city or town covers municipal employees only if it has chosen coverage.

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-29-6 says every person, firm, and private corporation, including any public service corporation, including the state, that regularly employs employees in the same business or in or about the same establishment under a contract of hire is an employer subject to the workers’ compensation chapters. The FAQ’s “one or more” line is the headcount a first hire should use. The statute’s word is “employees,” and it says the employment is regular. A regular shop does not wait for three employees or five employees. There is no three-employee gate on the FAQ.

The FAQ says many insurance carriers sell the policy. The Beacon Mutual Insurance Company is the carrier of last resort. If another carrier will not write the policy, Beacon Mutual should provide the coverage. Beacon Mutual is not the only carrier. It is not an exclusive state fund. R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-29-13 says every employer subject to the law shall post a summary of the act where workers are employed. A missed poster is $250 per offense. The FAQ says the insurer’s name belongs on that poster. The July 2025 employer brochure repeats the one-or-more rule and the $250 fine for a poster that is not displayed.

How Gusto and Patriot describe Rhode Island

Confirm the withholding account and the unemployment account on the BAR, then on the numbers the state mails after the first payroll. Confirm the 2026 cash rate on the rate release, the Employer Tax Unit page, and your notice. Confirm TDI as an employee deduction on Form TX-17, not as a policy you buy. Confirm the new-hire file on the Office of Child Support Services page. The online door that page links is ri-newhire.com. Confirm workplace injury insurance with a carrier, with Beacon Mutual only if you cannot get another policy.

Gusto’s Rhode Island help article is the registration page. It says Gusto, through Middesk, registers state income-tax withholding and state unemployment insurance. It also says that in California, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts, that registration includes Paid Family and Medical Leave, and that no additional registration is needed. Rhode Island’s rate release says Temporary Caregiver Insurance is part of TDI. It is not a separate state program. TDI is an employee payroll tax, not a separate paid-family agency. The Division of Taxation registration page lists withholding, unemployment, temporary disability insurance, and the job development fund tax. It does not list a separate paid-family registration. The article says Rhode Island is a state that mails tax-account information to the business. That mailing matches the employer-tax FAQ. The account packet goes out after the BAR and the first payroll. The article does not print the 1.21 percent cash rate, the $30,800 wage base, the 14-day new-hire clock, or Beacon Mutual. Read Gusto’s Rhode Island help article. See Gusto on the directory.

Patriot’s registration article says a new employer registers on the BAR for a state income-tax account with the Department of Taxation and a state unemployment account with the Department of Labor and Training. The live income-tax name is the Division of Taxation. The BAR door matches. The article prints the 2026 new-employer rate as 1.21 percent, including the 0.21 percent Job Development Assessment. Those two numbers match the rate release. The article also says the software calculates the 0.21 percent Job Development Fund assessment automatically. The 1.21 percent already includes that 0.21 percent. Form TX-17 still prints employment security and the Job Development Fund on separate lines, 1.00 percent and 0.21 percent on the Employer Tax Unit page. Do not enter 1.21 percent and then add 0.21 percent again. The article sends rate questions to uitax.ri.gov and calls that door the Division of Taxation Employer Tax Section. The 2026 Form TX-17 prints uitax.ri.gov on its face and also tells you to file at the online TX-17 portal. The Employer Tax Unit page lives on the Department of Labor and Training site. Keep all three.

The same Patriot article says workplace injury insurance is required with at least one employee, through a private provider or a state-operated fund. The one-employee line matches the workers’ compensation FAQ. The state-operated-fund line does not. The FAQ says many carriers sell the policy, and Beacon Mutual is the carrier of last resort. The article says temporary disability insurance and temporary caregiver insurance must be obtained as insurance policies through the state, funded by payroll deductions. The payroll-deduction funding matches the rate release. The “buy a policy” frame does not. TDI is withheld from wages and remitted on Form TX-17. TCI is part of TDI. It is not a second policy. The article says report a new hire within 14 days of hire or rehire at ri-newhire.com. The 14-day line matches the Office of Child Support Services page and the Form W-4 path in section 15-24-5. The article does not print the two electronic transmissions 12 to 16 days apart, the Holbrook mailing address, or the $20 penalty on the Office of Child Support Services page. The article also prints a 2026 minimum wage of $16.00 an hour. The rate release uses that same $16.00 figure in its TDI example. This tax file uses the rate release and Form TX-17, not a wage poster, for the tax rates. Read Patriot’s registration article. See Patriot on the directory.

Patriot’s taxes article says full service files Form TX-17 for unemployment insurance and files TDI on Form TX-17. It says withholding is Form RI-941 quarterly and Form RI-W3 as the annual reconciliation. Quarterly Form RI-941 matches Section E of the paper BAR. The withholding page still attaches Form RI-941 to the under-$50 payment. Form RI W-3 matches the withholding page. The table does not name the Job Development Fund as its own row. Form TX-17 line 6 is that fund, at 0.21 percent, inside the same quarterly report. Read Patriot’s Rhode Island taxes article.

What still sits on the employer

• File one Business Application and Registration for a new business. That form opens withholding with the Division of Taxation and opens unemployment, Temporary Disability Insurance, and the Job Development Fund with the Department of Labor and Training. Withholding is not on the fee list. The cigarette dealer’s license is the fee the live BAR screen names. The older registration page still mentions a retail-sales fee and a litter fee. The BAR screen says the litter fee ended for periods on or after January 1, 2024.
• The unemployment account number is mailed after the BAR and the first payroll. The liability date is the first date wages are paid in Rhode Island. The account cannot open before that date. The paper BAR says the unemployment account will be set up within 90 days of that date. These pages do not print a 10-day, 15-day, 20-day, or 30-day deadline to file the registration. Hold the state account numbers. Do not substitute a federal EIN. A sole proprietor with no employees does not register. A spouse or a child working for that sole proprietor can be exempt under section 28-42-8. A household that pays $1,000 or more in cash wages in a calendar quarter is subject to employment security and TDI.
• Withhold Rhode Island income tax if you have an office or transact business in the state and you pay wages subject to Rhode Island personal income tax. Have each employee complete Form RI-W4. Section 44-30-71 also says you may rely on the federal exemption count. Pay weekly at $600 or more withheld in a month, monthly from $50 to under $600, and quarterly under $50. File Form RI-941 every quarter even when the payment is weekly or monthly. The December Withholding Account Summary names the due dates. File Form RI W-3 by January 31. A one-employee shop is under the statute’s ten-employee electronic-payment line. A brand-new shop has no prior-year $200 monthly average.
• For 2026, the unemployment wage base for most employers is $30,800, or $32,300 if the employment-security rate is 9.19 or higher. The new-employer cash rate is 1.21 percent, including the 0.21 percent Job Development Assessment. The Employer Tax Unit page prints that cash rate as 1.00 percent plus 0.21 percent. Schedule F runs from 0.9 percent to 9.4 percent and is reduced by 0.21 percent to offset the assessment. Enter the rate on your notice. Do not add 0.21 percent a second time on top of 1.21 percent.
• Withhold Temporary Disability Insurance from wages. For 2026 the employee rate is 1.1 percent of the first $100,000. The maximum is $1,100. Workers who are 14 or 15 do not have that deduction. They stay covered for unemployment insurance. Temporary Caregiver Insurance is part of TDI. It is not a separate program and it is not unemployment tax. Remit it on Form TX-17 with employment security and the Job Development Fund. If you fail to deduct it, section 28-40-4 makes the employer liable. File Form TX-17 by the last day of the next month: January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31. Late interest is 1.5 percent per month. A missed quarterly tax report is $25, plus 10 percent of the taxes due for each fund. Late wage information is $25 a month, capped at $200 for one report. Employers with 25 or more employees file wage data electronically. A one-employee shop is under that line.
• File the new-hire report with the Office of Child Support Services. A hire or rehire is due within 14 days. An electronic or magnetic report is two transmissions a month, 12 to 16 days apart. Mail goes to P.O. Box 335, Holbrook, MA 02343. The fax is 888-430-6907. The online door is ri-newhire.com. The penalty on the Office of Child Support Services page is $20 for each failure, or $500 if the employee conspired with the employer. Section 15-24-5 says the electronic gap is not more than 15 days. The directory law page still prints $25, twelve weeks, and a Norwell post office box. Use the Office of Child Support Services page. Form TX-17 does not satisfy that clock.
• Buy workplace injury insurance when you have one or more employees. Many carriers sell it. Beacon Mutual is the carrier of last resort. It is not an exclusive state fund. Post the summary required by section 28-29-13. A missed poster is $250 per offense. Sole proprietors, partners, and independent contractors are outside the FAQ’s covered group.
• Do not copy another state’s clock onto Rhode Island. Rhode Island does not use California’s $100-in-a-quarter test. Rhode Island does not use a 15-day California registration clock. Rhode Island does not use Maine’s 2.54 percent combined rate, Maine’s $12,000 wage base, or Maine’s 7-day report to the Department of Health and Human Services. Rhode Island does not use Alaska’s rule of no paycheck withholding. Rhode Island does not use Alaska’s 0.50 percent employee unemployment share. Rhode Island does not use Vermont’s Child Care Contribution. Rhode Island does not use Vermont’s 10-day new-hire report. Rhode Island does not use New Hampshire’s rule of no broad wage income-tax withholding. Rhode Island’s employee TDI deduction is not SUTA. Rhode Island does not use North Dakota’s exclusive state fund. Rhode Island does not use Washington’s exclusive state fund. Rhode Island does not use Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation monopoly. Rhode Island does not use Texas optional coverage. Rhode Island does not use Wyoming’s extra-hazardous state fund.

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