Samuel's Mexican Restaurant incurred salaries expense of $ 64,000 for 2018. The payroll expense includes employer FICA tax, in addition to state unemployment tax and federal unemployment tax. Of the total salaries, $ 15,000 is subject to unemployment tax. Also, the company provides the following benefits for employees: health insurance (cost to the company, $ 2,100), life insurance (cost to the company, $ 320), and retirement benefits (cost to the company, 9% of salaries expense).

Required:
a. Journalize Samuel's expenses for employee benefits and for payroll taxes. Explanations are not required.
b. What was Ricardo's total expense for 2018 related to payroll?

Problem 9-5. net present value and taxes [lo 1, 2] penguin productions is evaluating a film project. the president of penguin estimates that the film will cost $20,000,000 to produce. in its first year, the film is expected to generate $16,500,000 in net revenue, after which the film will be released to video. video is expected to generate $10,000,000 in net revenue in its first year, $2,500,000 in its second year, and $1,000,000 in its third year. for tax purposes, amortization of the cost of the film will be $12,000,000 in year 1 and $8,000,000 in year 2. the company’s tax rate is 35 percent, and the company requires a 12 percent rate of return on its films. required what is the net present value of the film project? to simplify, assume that all outlays to produce the film occur at time 0. should the company produce the film?

Which of the following will not cause the consumption schedule to shift? a) a sharp increase in the amount of wealth held by households b) a change in consumer incomes c) the expectation of a recession d) a growing expectation that consumer durables will be in short supply

How did the change in textile production affect employment in spinning and weaving for adults and children?