871—22.3(96) Filing of Employer’s Contribution and Payroll, 65-5300, and Employer’s Payroll Continuation Sheet, 60-0103.
	22.3(1) Each employer shall, by the due date, electronically submit contribution and payroll for each quarter listing wages paid with respect to all the employer’s business maintained within this state computed in accordance with the Iowa Code and these rules.
	22.3(2) Rescinded IAB 8/2/17, effective 9/6/17.
	22.3(3) A copy of each such report shall be preserved by each such employer for a period of at least five years from the end of the calendar year in which the report was due.
	22.3(4) Employer to file report even when no payroll. Every qualified or subject employer is required to file contribution and payroll each quarter. Even though an employer finds that for some particular quarter no contributions are due or the employer has no employees during the period covered, a report must be filed with the department.
	22.3(5) Combined reports, leased employees, and concurrently employed individuals.
	a. 	Consolidated or combined reports of parent and subsidiary corporations or other employing units, whether or not the employing units are related, shall not be allowed.
	b. 	Employees of parent and subsidiary corporations or other employing units, whether or not they are related, shall be reported on the quarterly reports of the employing unit for which the services are performed regardless of which employing unit actually issues the employees’ paychecks.
	c. 	Leased employees:
	(1)	Except as described in subparagraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) below, individuals leased from an employee leasing company, by the client of the employee leasing company, shall be considered to be employed by the client and shall be reported on the quarterly reports of the client, at the contribution rate of the client, unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the department that the individuals are and will continue to be under the exclusive direction and control of the employee leasing company, both under a written contract and in fact.
In order for a contract to be considered evidence that individuals are the employees of the employee leasing company it shall:
	1.	Specify the service to be performed by the individuals, on behalf of the employee leasing company, for the client.
	2.	Specify the fee the client must pay for this service. The fee must be large enough to cover the actual cost of the individuals’ wages and fringe benefits plus provide a reasonable profit on the service performed for the client.
	3.	Specify that the employee leasing company has the exclusive right to determine the number of individuals needed to provide the service for the client and to direct and control the individuals in the performance of the service.
	4.	Specify that the employee leasing company has the exclusive right to hire, fire, discipline, and reassign any of the individuals to another position or to another client without the consent of the client.
	(2)	If an individual is leased to fill a temporary need from a company whose business is primarily to provide workers to fill temporary needs, the individual shall be considered to be the employee of the leasing company as long as a written contract is in place.
	(3)	If an individual is a truck driver leased from a company that leases truck tractors with drivers to trucking companies, the individual shall be considered to be the employee of the leasing company unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the department that the trucking company has the exclusive right to hire, fire, discipline, reassign, and direct and control the services performed by the individual, both under a written contract and in fact.
	(4)	If an individual leased from an employee leasing company is a corporate officer of the client, the individual shall always be considered the employee of the client and not the employee of the leasing company.
	(5)	If an individual leased from an employee leasing company holds an exempt relationship, as defined in Iowa Code section 96.19(18)“g”(5), with the client, the individual shall not be considered to be an employee of either the client or the leasing company unless an election to cover the individual has been filed and approved in accordance with Iowa Code section 96.8(3)“b.”
	d. 	Concurrently employed individuals.
	(1)	Except as described in subparagraph (2) below, individuals who perform services concurrently for more than one employing unit, whether or not the employing units are related, shall be considered as working for each of the employing units and shall be reported on the quarterly reports of each of the employing units. Each of the employing units shall be required to pay contributions on the wages attributable to that employing unit up to the taxable wage base limit for each calendar year.
	(2)	An individual who concurrently performs services as a corporate officer for two or more related corporations and who is paid through a common paymaster that is one of the related corporations may be treated as working for only the common paymaster at the discretion of the related corporations.
	22.3(6) Form 65-5300, Employer’s Contribution and Payroll, shall include:
	a. 	The social security number, name (last name first), and total wages paid to each employee during the calendar quarter. All corrections to previous reports must be submitted electronically. All employees’ wages will be reported by the reporting unit under which the work was performed. See rules 871—23.3(96) through 871—23.6(96).
	b. 	The sum of the total and taxable wages paid to all employees during the calendar quarter. The sum of the total and taxable wages will be computed for the employer. The electronic system will compute the taxable wages for each employee. If the employer is claiming taxable wages reported to another state, the amount claimed and the state that the wages were reported to will be listed.
	c. 	The amount of contribution due for the calendar quarter. The system will compute and enter the contribution due.
	d. 	The amount of interest due, if any, for the calendar quarter. The system will compute and enter the interest due.
	e. 	The amount of penalty due, if any, for the calendar quarter. The system will compute and enter any penalty due.
	f. 	The total amount of contribution, interest and penalty due for the calendar quarter. The system will compute and enter the total amount due.
	g. 	Rescinded IAB 5/5/10, effective 6/9/10.
	h. 	The amount of net remittance due for the calendar quarter; however, if the amount of net remittance due is less than $1, the employer need not submit payment. The system will compute and enter the net remittance due.
	i. 	The total number of employees listed on the report. The system will compute and enter the total number of employees on the report.
	j. 	The amount of extraordinary pay which was paid to the employees during the calendar quarter for each reporting unit.
	k. 	The total number of employees paid wages during the pay periods which include the twelfth day of each month of the calendar quarter for each reporting unit.
	l. 	The number of the county in which the reporting unit is located if only one business activity is conducted at only one worksite during the calendar quarter; however, if the same business activity is conducted at more than one worksite or if different business activities are conducted at one or more worksites, the employer shall include for each worksite the total number of employees paid wages during the pay periods which include the twelfth day of each month of the calendar quarter and the total wages paid during the calendar quarter. The system will compute and enter taxable wages.
	(1)	The total number of employees paid wages during the pay periods which include the twelfth day of each month of the calendar quarter for all worksites should equal the total number of employees reported for that month.
	(2)	The total wages paid to all employees at all worksites should equal the total wages reported.
	(3)	It could be possible for wages to be reported for a worksite without corresponding employment being reported in any of the months during the quarter because wages paid are reportable for the full 13-week period in the calendar quarter. Employment is reportable when such employment occurs during the pay periods which include the twelfth day of any month in the calendar quarter.
	m. 	The reason (seasonal change, labor dispute, layoff, recall, worksite opening, or worksite closing) for the increase or decrease in total employment during the calendar quarter.
	n. 	Rescinded IAB 3/5/03, effective 4/9/03.
	o. 	The electronic signature of the owner, responsible officer, or authorized agent of the employer certifying that the information given is true and correct to the best of the signer’s knowledge and belief, the date the report was submitted and the telephone number of the signer.
	p. 	Such other schedules or reports as may be required, duly completed in all substantial respects on such forms and in accordance with such instructions as the department may provide or approve.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 96.7, 96.11(6), 96.11(11) and 96.19(17).
[ARC 8711B, IAB 5/5/10, effective 6/9/10; ARC 3248C, IAB 8/2/17, effective 9/6/17; ARC 3265C, IAB 8/16/17, effective 9/20/17]