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.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's no truth in the theoryâappealing as it may beâthat ''news'' is an acronym for North, East, West and South. Rather, it is a ''mass'' noun, traced by the OED back to early Old English, referring to ''that which is new'', and which draws from the Middle French nouvelles and Classical Latin nova.