The following information about the payroll for the week ended December 30 was obtained from the records of Saine Co:
| Salaries: |
| Sales Salaries |
$ 625,000.00 |
Deductions: |
| Warehouse Salaries |
$ 240,000.00 |
Income tax withheld |
$ 232,260.00 |
| Office Salaries |
$ 320,000.00 |
Social Security tax withheld |
$ 71,100.00 |
| $ 1,185,000.00 |
Medicare tax withheld |
$ 17,775.00 |
| US savings bond |
$ 35,500.00 |
| Group Insurance |
$ 53,325.00 |
| Tax Rates assumed: |
$ 409,960.00 |
| Social Security |
6% |
| Medicare |
1.50% |
| State Unemployment (employer only) |
5.40% |
| Federal Unemployment (employer only) |
0.80% |
1) Assuming that the payroll for the last week of the year is to be paid on December 31, journalize the following entries:
a.) December 30, to record the payroll
b.) December 30, to recored the employers payroll taxes on the payroll to be paid on December 31. Of the total payroll for the last week of the year, $30,000 is subject
to unemployment compensation taxes.
2) Assuming that the payroll for the last week of the year is to be paid on January 4 of the following fiscal year, journalize the following entries:
a.) December 30, to record the payroll
b.) January 4, to recored the employers payroll taxes on the payroll to be paid on January 4. Because it is a new fiscal year, all $1,185,000 in salaries is subject to