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Calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of Regis Company. Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 6% of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%


Problem 11-2A Entries for payroll transactions LO P2, P3

On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, Regis Company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $24,760 of office salaries and $60,840 of sales salaries. Withholdings from the employees' salaries include FICA Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, FICA Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,160 of federal income taxes, $1,420 of medical insurance deductions, and $880 of union dues. No employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period.

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1.1 Calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of Regis Company. Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 6% of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%

TAXJanuary 8 earnings subject to taxTax rateTax amount
FICA - Social Security


FICA - Medicare


FUTA


SUTA


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Regis Company’s:
Tax January 8 earnings
subject to tax
Tax Rate Tax Amount
FICA-Social Security 85,600 6.20% 5307.20
FICA-Medicare 85,600 1.45% 1241.20
FUTA 85,600 0.60% 513.60
SUTA 85,600 6.00% 5136.00

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