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Calculating Payroll Taxes Expense and Preparing Journal Entry

1. Calculate the total employer payroll taxes for these employees. Round all your calculations, including your answer, to the nearest cent.

2. Prepare the journal entry to record the employer payroll taxes as of July 7, 20--. Round your answers to the nearest cent. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.

Selected information from the payroll register of Ebeling's Dairy for the week ended July 7, 20--, is shown below. The SUTA tax rate is 5.4%, and the FUTA tax rate is 0.6%, both on the first $7,000 of earnings. Social Security tax on the employer is 6.2% on the first $118,500 of earnings, and Medicare tax is 1.45% on gross earnings.

				Taxable Earnings
Employee Name	Cumulative Pay Before Current Earnings		Current Weekly Earnings	Unemployment Compensation	Social Security
Click, Katelyn		$6,650	$800
Coombs, Michelle		6,370	720
Fauss, Erin		23,460	1,200
Lenihan, Marcus		6,930	900
McMahon, Drew		117,150	3,440
Newell, Marg		25,470	1,110
Stevens, Matt		28,675	1,260

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i don't understand how to get the unemployement amount for each person?

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