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Medicare Tax for high income employees Examples of Payroll Taxes Paid Solely by the Employer Some payroll taxes are not withheld from the employees’ wages. Instead, the entire amount is paid by the employer. Examples...

A percentage of an hourly wage rate (or salary) that represents the employer’s additional costs of employee benefits such as paid vacation days, paid sick days, insurance (health, dental, life, worker...

Our Explanation of Payroll Accounting discusses the taxes and benefits which are withheld from employees' pay as well as the taxes and benefits that are expenses for the employers. Also provided are examples of the...

Payroll taxes include 1) the taxes withheld from employees’ wages and salaries such as Social Security tax, Medicare tax, federal income tax, and state income tax, 2) the employers’ portion of the Social...

A current liability that includes payroll taxes withheld from employees and payroll taxes that are levied on an employer but have not yet been remitted.

Our Explanation of Payroll Accounting discusses the taxes and benefits which are withheld from employees' pay as well as the taxes and benefits that are expenses for the employers. Also provided are examples of the...

What are payroll withholding taxes? Author: Harold Averkamp, CPA, MBA Definition of Payroll Withholding Taxes In the U.S. payroll withholding taxes are the taxes that an employer is required to deduct from its...

A publication by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to assist employers with federal payroll taxes. The complete title of the publication is Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer’s Tax Guide. It is available...

. government within a specified period after the dates of the paychecks. FICA Matching is an Additional Part of an Employee’s Compensation The employer’s matching of the FICA taxes (the matching amounts for the...

Our Explanation of Payroll Accounting discusses the taxes and benefits which are withheld from employees' pay as well as the taxes and benefits that are expenses for the employers. Also provided are examples of the...

What is FICA? Author: Harold Averkamp, CPA, MBA Definition of FICA FICA is the acronym for Federal Insurance Contributions Act. FICA consists of the U.S. Social Security payroll tax and the Medicare payroll tax. The FICA...

Our Explanation of Payroll Accounting discusses the taxes and benefits which are withheld from employees' pay as well as the taxes and benefits that are expenses for the employers. Also provided are examples of the...

of payroll taxes such as federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, state income taxes (if applicable) withholding for the employees’ portion of health insurance premiums, employees’ contributions...

One component of the payroll tax referred to as FICA. (The other component of the FICA tax is the Medicare tax.) The Social Security tax is levied by the U.S. government on both the employee and the employer. In 2024 the...

? Where do you account for payroll taxes on the income statement? What is the FUTA tax? What is the employer matching of FICA? How do you calculate the payroll accrual? What is the difference between Social Security and...

What are sales taxes? Author: Harold Averkamp, CPA, MBA In the United States, most of its 50 States assess a sales tax, which is a tax on sales to the end user. For example, in the state of Wisconsin a retailer must...

Often a liability representing the differences between the income tax expense associated with the revenues and expenses reported on a corporation’s income statements and the actual income tax appearing on the...

! Gross wages of $500.00 + employer's portion of FICA $38.25 ($500.00 X employer rate of 7.65%) + unemployment tax of $24.00 + worker comp insurance of $5.00. $605.50 Wrong. Try another answer. Mark the Quiz as...

What are gross wages? Author: Harold Averkamp, CPA, MBA Definition of Gross Wages Gross wages are the amounts earned by employees before the payroll withholding taxes and other deductions are subtracted. Sometimes gross...

The amount of wages and related expenses that have been incurred by the employer (and earned by the employees) but have not yet been paid.

that will be processed in early January and paid to the employees on Friday, January 8. The amount of the wages for the five days of December 27 through December 31 are calculated to be $5,000. In addition, the retailer...

This current liability account reports the ”net” amount a company owes its employees as of the date of the balance sheet. The ”net” amount is the amount of the employees’...

The amounts withheld for employees’ checks for Social Security tax, Medicare tax, federal income tax, state income tax, and voluntary deductions such as United Way, union dues, 401(k) contributions,...

A measurement of financial performance of a company’s operating division that is not responsible for its financing and income taxes. The calculation is likely to be 1) the division’s operating income before...

A person who is considered to be both the employer and the employee. For example, the sole owner of a sole proprietorship is self-employed.

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