E13-6 (L01) (Payroll Tax Entries) The payroll of YellowCard Company for September 2016 is as follows. Total payroll was $480,000, of which $110,000 is exempt from Social Security tax because it represented amounts paid in excess of $118,500 to certain employees. The amount paid to employees in excess of $7,000 was $400,000. Income taxes in the amount of $80,000 were withheld, as was $9,000 in union dues. The state unemployment tax is 3.5%, but YellowCard Company is allowed a credit of 2.3% by the state for its unemployment experience. Also, assume that the current FICA tax is 7.65% on an employees wages to $118,500 and 1.45% in excess of $118,500. No employee for YellowCard makes more than $125,000. The

federal unemployment tax rate is 0.8% after state credit.

Instructions Please show work

1) Prepare the necessary journal entries if the wages and salaries paid and the employer payroll taxes are recorded separately.

2) Calculate the amounts for a liability for 2016 and 2017 fro compensated absences.