On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the
year, Regis Company's payroll register showed that its employees
earned $26,760 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%, $13,060 of federal income taxes, $1,370 of medical
insurance deductions, and $800 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 3% of the first $7,000 paid each employee.
The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%. (Round your
answers to 2 decimal places.)
1.2 Prepare the journal entry to record Regis
Company's January 8 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.
(Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
2. Prepare the journal entry to record Regis’s
(employer) payroll taxes resulting from the January 8 payroll.
Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3%
of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment
tax rate is 0.60%. (Round your answers to 2 decimal
places.)
1.1 | |||
Regis Company’s: | |||
Tax | January 8 earnings subject to tax | Tax Rate | Tax Amount |
FICA-Social Security | $87,600 | 6.20% | $5,431.20 |
FICA-Medicare | $87,600 | 1.45% | $1,270.20 |
FUTA | $87,600 | 0.60% | $525.60 |
SUTA | $87,600 | 3.00% | $2,628.00 |
1.2 | |||
Date | General Journal | Debit | Credit |
8-Jan | Office salaries expense | 26,760.00 | |
Sales salaries expense | 60,840.00 | ||
FICA—Social sec. taxes payable | 5,431.20 | ||
FICA—Medicare taxes payable | 1,270.20 | ||
Employee fed. inc. taxes payable | 13,060.00 | ||
Employee medical insurance payable | 1,370.00 | ||
Employee union dues payable | 800 | ||
Salaries payable | 65,668.60 | ||
2 | |||
Date | General Journal | Debit | Credit |
8-Jan | Payroll taxes expense | 9,855.00 | |
FICA—Social sec. taxes payable | 5,431.20 | ||
FICA—Medicare taxes payable | 1,270.20 | ||
State unemployment taxes payable | 2,628.00 | ||
Federal unemployment taxes payable | $525.60 | ||
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