Emily and Joel Schumaker are married clients have just been approved for a twenty-year, $150,000 mortgage. They have been given a choice of two loans. One loan has an annual percentage rate (APR) of 8 percent and does not carry a fee, and the other has an APR of 7.5 percent but carries a discount fee of 2 percent of the initial loan amount. The fee for the second mortgage is payable in cash at loan inception and cannot be financed with the loan. From a present value cost perspective, which loan is the better deal, assuming they sell their home immediately after paying the 120th payment and require a 9 percent effective annual rate of return? In other words, which option has the lower cost?

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60