Barbara Muller Services (BMS) pays its employees monthly. The payroll information listed
below is for January 2013, the first month of BMS's fiscal year. Assume none of the employees'
earnings reached $7,000 during the month.
The journal entry to record payroll for the January 2013 pay period will include a debit to payroll
tax expense of:
Salaries $100,000
Federal income taxes to be withheld 32,000
Federal unemployment tax rate .80%
State unemployment tax rate (after FUTA deduction) 5.40%
Social security tax rate 6.2%
Medicare tax rate 1.45%
Solution
$11080