Reference no: EM132936923

Since the SUTA rates changes are made at the end of each year, the available 2020 rates were used for FUTA and SUTA.

Note: For this textbook edition the rate 0.6% was used for the net FUTA tax rate for employers.

The Iqbal Company of Georgia had a FUTA taxable payroll of $215,600 and a SUTA taxable payroll of $255,700 with a 5.6 percent SUTA tax rate. The company would pay unemployment taxes of:

FUTA $215,600 × 0.006 = $1,293.60
SUTA $255,700 × 0.056 = 14,319.20
Total taxes $15,612.80

• Kresloff Company has only two employees and is located in a state that has set an unemployment tax for the company of 4.8 percent on the first $12,000 of each employee's earnings. Both employees are paid the same amount each week ($900) and have earned $11,500 up to this week's pay. The unemployment taxes that the company must pay for this week's pay would be $48.

FUTA tax (both over $7,000) = $0.00
SUTA tax ($1,000 × 0.048) = $48.00
($500 of each employee's pay is under the state taxable limit of $12,000)

Problem 1: Peyton Company's payroll for the year is $731,770. Of this amount, $478,490 is for wages paid in excess of $7,000 to each individual employee. The SUTA rate in Peyton Company's state is 2.9% on the first $7,000 of each employee's earnings. Compute:

Round your answers to the nearest cent.

a. Net FUTA tax
b. Net SUTA tax
c. Total unemployment taxes