
Yolanda’s Employer: Soc. Sec. $ ____________
Medicare $ ____________
Total FICA Tax $ ____________
LO 9.3 10. Jan has two jobs during 2010. One employer withheld and paid FICA taxes on $66,600
of Jan’s salary, and the other employer withheld and paid FICA taxes on $44,400 in sal-
ary paid to Jan. Calculate the amount of Jan’s overpayment of FICA taxes that he should
claim on his 2010 Form 1040.
$ ____________
LO 9.4 11. Stew is a self-employed surfboard maker in 2010. His Schedule C net income is $104,000
for the year. He also has a part-time job and earns $8,500 in wages subject to FICA taxes.
Calculate Stew’s self-employment tax for 2010 using Schedule SE on pages 9-47 and 9-48.
LO 9.5 12. Thomas is an employer with one employee, Sarah. Sarah’s wages during 2010 are
$19,450, and the state unemployment tax rate is 5.4 percent. Calculate the following
amounts for Thomas:
a. FUTA tax before the state tax credit $ _____________
b. State unemployment tax $ _____________
c. FUTA tax after the state tax credit $ _____________
LO 9.6 13. Sally hires a maid to work in her home for $250 per month. The maid is 25 years old
and not related to Sally. During 2010, the maid worked 10 months for Sally.
a. What is the amount of Social Security tax Sally must pay as the maid’s employer?
$ ____________
b. What is the amount of Medicare tax Sally must pay as the maid’s employer?
$ ____________
c. What is the amount of Social Security and Medicare tax which must be withheld
from the maid’s wages?
$ ____________
LO 9.6 14. Ann hires a nanny to watch her two children whi le she works at a local hospital. She
pays the 19-year-old nanny $125 per week for 48 week s during the current year.
a. What is the employer’s portion of Social Security and Medicare tax for the nanny
that Ann should pay when she files her Form 1040 for 2010?
$ ____________
b. What is the nanny’s portion of the FICA and Medicare tax?
$ ____________
LO 9.2 15. Go to the IRS Web site (www.irs.gov) and redo Problem 5 (Chapter 9, Group 2) using
the most recent interactive ‘‘Fill-in Forms’’ Form 1040-ES. Print out the completed Form
1040-ES.
LO 9.3 16. Fly-By-Night (P.O. Box 1234, Dallas, TX 75221, EIN 12-9876543) paid George Smith,
an employee who lives at 432 Second Street, Garland, TX 75040, wages of $24,300. The
income tax withholding amounted to $5,320 and the FICA tax was $1,858.95 ($1,506.60
for Social Security and $352.35 for Medicare). George’s FICA wages were the same as
the total wages, and his Social Security number is 466-47-3313. Fly-By-Night’s owner, a
shady character, took off to South America with all the firm’s funds, and did not file the
required W-2s, etc. for George (and other employees). The above numbers are taken
from the year-to-date section of George’s last pay stub.
Go to the IRS Web site (www.irs.gov) and complete a Substitute W-2 using the
most recent interactive ‘‘Fill-in Forms’’ Form 4852. Print out the completed Form 4852.
Questions and Problems 9-45
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