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Payroll Liabilities
Parson - Chp 13 Payroll Liabilities and Tax Records
Question | Answer |
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Salaries Expense | The expense account used to record employee's earnings. |
Federal Unemployment Tax Act | Requires employers to pay federal unemployment taxes based on a percentage of the employees' gross earnings. |
State Unemployment Tax Act | Requires employers to pay state unemployment taxes based on a percentage of the employees' gross earnings. |
Unemployment taxes | taxes collected to provide funds for workers who are temporarily out of work; usually paid only by the employer. |
Payroll Tax Expense | Account where the employer's payroll taxes are recorded. |
Federal Tax Deposit Coupon | A form sent with payment for FICA and federal income taxes or federal unemployment taxes to indicate the total amount of taxes being paid. |
Electronic Federal Tax Payment System | Larger businesses deposit income tax payments by electronic funds transfer. |
Form W-2 | a form that provides the employee with a summary of earnings and amounts withheld for federal, state, and local taxes; also called a wage and tax statement. |
Form 940 | the employer's unemployment tax return; it includes both federal and state unemployment taxes paid during the year. |
Form 941 | The employer's quarterly federal tax return; it reports the accumulated amounts of FICA and federal income tax withheld from employees' earnings for the quarter, as well as FICA tax owed by the employer. |
Form W-3 | The Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements, filed with the federal government to summarize the information contained on the employees' Forms W-2 |