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BMX Company has one employee. FICA Social Security taxes are 6.2% of the first $128,400 paid to its employee, and FICA Medicare taxes are 1.45% of gross pay. For BMX, its FUTA taxes are 0.6% and SUTA taxes are 5.4% of the first $7,000 paid to its employee.

	Gross Pay through August 31		Gross Pay for September
a.		$	6,400					$	800
b.			2,000						2,100
c.			122,100						8,000

Exercise 11-5 Computing payroll taxes LO P2, P3

Compute BMX’s amounts for each of these four taxes as applied to the employee’s gross earnings for September under each of three separate situations (a), (b), and (c). (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

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