Based on the information below, Prepare the journal entry to record Regis’s (employer) payroll taxes resulting from the January 8 payroll. Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 5% of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, Regis Company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $23,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. Withholdings from the employees' salaries include FICA Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, FICA Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $12,760 of federal income taxes, $1,350 of medical insurance deductions, and $780 of union dues. No employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period.

Based on the information below, Prepare the journal entry to record Regis’s (employer) payroll taxes resulting from the January 8 payroll. Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 5% of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, Regis Company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $23,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. Withholdings from the employees' salaries include FICA Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, FICA Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $12,760 of federal income taxes, $1,350 of medical insurance deductions, and $780 of union dues. No employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period.

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