Employee earnings records for Redding Company reveal the following gross earnings for four employees through the pay period of December

Question:

Employee earnings records for Redding Company reveal the following gross earnings for four employees through the pay period of December 15.

D. Edwards ........... $83,500

A. Seligman .........$104,500

M. Ihrke ...............$105,600

P. Paik .................$106,800

For the pay period ending December 31, each employee’s gross earnings is $4,200. Employees are required to pay a FICA tax rate of 7.65% on gross earnings up to $106,800 and 1.45% over $106,800.


Instructions

Compute the FICA withholdings that should be made for each employee for the December 31 pay period. (Show computations.)

This problem has been solved!


Do you need an answer to a question different from the above? Ask your question!

Step by Step Answer:

Related Book For  answer-question

Financial and managerial accounting

ISBN: 978-1118016114

1st edition

Authors: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso

Question Details
Chapter # 28
Section: Exercises
Problem: 2
View Solution
Create a free account to access the answer
Cannot find your solution?
Post a FREE question now and get an answer within minutes. * Average response time.
Question Posted: December 29, 2012 03:22:10