Problem 9-6AA (Algo) Entries for payroll transactions LO P5

Francisco Company has 20 employees, each of whom earns $2,800 per month and is paid on the last day of each month. All 20 have been employed continuously at this amount since January 1. On March 1, the following accounts and balances exist in its general ledger.

1. FICASocial Security Taxes Payable, $6,944; FICAMedicare Taxes Payable, $1,624. (The balances of these accounts represent total liabilities for both the employer's and employees' FICA taxes for the February payroll only.)
2. Employees' Federal Income Taxes Payable, $14,000 (liability for February only).
3. Federal Unemployment Taxes Payable, $672 (liability for January and February together).
4. State Unemployment Taxes Payable, $6,048 (liability for January and February together).

The company had the following payroll transactions.

March 15	Issued check payable to Swift Bank, a federal depository bank authorized to accept employers' payments of FICA taxes and employee income tax withholdings. The $22,568 check is in payment of the February FICA and employee income taxes.
March 31	Recorded the journal entry for the March salaries payable. Then recorded the cash payment of the March payroll (the company issued checks payable to each employee in payment of the March payroll). The payroll register shows the following summary totals for the March pay period.

Salaries
Office Salaries	Shop Salaries	Gross Pay	FICA Taxes*	Federal Income Taxes	Net Pay
$22,400	$33,600	$56,000	$ 3,472	$14,000	$37,716
			$ 812

* FICA taxes are Social Security and Medicare, respectively.

March 31	Recorded the employer's payroll taxes resulting from the March payroll. The company has a state unemployment tax rate of 5.40% on the first $7,000 paid to each employee. The federal rate is 0.60%.
April 15	Issued check to Swift Bank in payment of the March FICA and employee income taxes.
April 15	Issued check to the State Tax Commission for the January, February, and March state unemployment taxes. Filed the check and the first-quarter tax return with the Commission.
April 30	Issued check payable to Swift Bank in payment of the employer's FUTA taxes for the first quarter of the year.
April 30	Filed Form 941 with the IRS, reporting the FICA taxes and the employees' federal income tax withholdings for the first quarter

• Record the employers payroll expenses and liabilities for the month of March.
• Record the cash payment of FICA (employees' and employer's) and employee income taxes of the month of March.
• Record the cash payment of SUTA taxes for the months of January, February and March.
• Record the cash payment of FUTA taxes for the first quarter of the year.
• Record the filing of Form 941with the IRS, reporting the FICA taxes and the employees federal income tax withholdings for the first quarter.