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Gary Marks is paid on a monthly basis. For the month of January of the current year, he earned a total of $9,088. Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax for Social Security is 6.2% on the first $137,700 of earnings each calendar year and the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax for Medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. The Federal Unemployment Taxes (FUTA) tax rate is 0.6%, and the State Unemployment Taxes (SUTA) tax rate is 5.4%. Both unemployment taxes are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee's pay. The amount of Federal Income Tax withheld from his earnings was $1,507.97. What is the amount of the employer's payroll taxes expense for this employee

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Payroll Taxes = FICA-SS Tax + FICA-Medicare Tax + FUTA Tax + SUTA Tax

Payroll Taxes = $575.861 + $134.682 + $42.003 + $378.004 = $1,130.541

FICA—Social security $9,288 × 0.062 = $575.862

FICA—Medicare $9,288 × 0.0145 = $134.683

FUTA $7,000 × 0.006 = $42.004

SUTA $7,000 × 0.054 = $378.00

A payroll tax is required to be deducted from employees' paychecks under the Federal Insurance Amounts Act (FICA), a 1935 U.S. statute that also requires employers to make matching contributions. The funds raised are utilized to pay for Social Security and Medicare.

The original intent of the act was for working individuals to pay a specific percentage of each paycheck they received during their working years into Social Security (and later Medicare) in order to be able to rely on earned financial and health benefits in their older years.

Self-employed people must pay taxes on their net income under the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) of 1954 in order to support Social Security and Medicare.

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