Mann Hardware has four employees who are paid on an hourly basis plus timeand-a-half for all hours worked in excess of 40 a week. Payroll data for the week ended March 15, 2017, are presented below.

Abel and Hager are married. They claim 0 and 4 withholding allowances, respectively. The following tax rates are applicable: FICA 7.65%, state income taxes 3%, state unemployment taxes 5.4%, and federal unemployment 0.8%.

Instructions

(a) Prepare a payroll register for the weekly payroll. (Use the wage-bracket withholding table in the text for federal income tax withholdings.)

(b) Journalize the payroll on March 15, 2017, and the accrual of employer payroll taxes.

(c) Journalize the payment of the payroll on March 16, 2017.

(d) Journalize the deposit in a Federal Reserve bank on March 31, 2017, of the FICA and federal income taxes payable to the government.

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Federal Hours Hourly Income Tax United Employee Worked Withholdings $ ? Rate Fund Ben Abel Rita Hager 40 $15.00 $5.00 42 16.00 ? 5.00 Jack Never 44 13.00 60.00 8.00 Sue Perez 46 13.00 61.00 5.00