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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.
Required:
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%
TAX | January 8 earnings subject to tax | Tax rate | Tax amount |
FICA - Social Security | |||
FICA - Medicare | |||
FUTA | |||
SUTA |
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 |