Universal Exporting has three warehouse employees: John Abner earns $422 per week, Anne Clark earns $510 per week, and Todd Corbin earns $695 per week. The company’s SUTA tax rate is 5.4%, and the FUTA rate is 6.0% minus the SUTA. As usual, these taxes are paid on the first $7,000 of each employee’s earnings.
a. How much SUTA and FUTA tax did the company pay on these employees in the first quarter of the year?
b. How much SUTA and FUTA tax did Universal pay in the second quarter of the year?