Current federal law provides employers with a 5.4 percent FUTA tax credit. However, due to Californiaâs outstanding federal loan, the FUTA tax credit was reduced to 5.1 percent for the 2011 tax year, 4.8 percent for the 2012 tax year, 4.5 percent for the 2013 tax year, 4.2 percent for the 2014 tax year, and 3.9 percent for the 2015 tax year.
History for gossip. At first the word gossip, from Old English godsibb, meant âgodparent.â Later it came to mean âclose friendâ as well. Close friends, of course, share secrets. Gossip has come to mean anyone, friend or not, who shares the secrets of others.
Gossip, scandal apply to idle talk and newsmongering about the affairs of others. Gossip is light chat or talk: to trade gossip about the neighbors. Scandal is rumor or general talk that is damaging to reputation; it is usually more or less malicious: The town never lived down the election scandal. 3. chatterer, talker, gabbler, rumormonger. 6. chatter, prattle, prate, palaver.