Starbucks' "Bean Stock" is: a. the company term for the practice of showcasing of new artists' music in its stores. the company term for the rise (or fall) in value of Starbucks shares on the stock exchange.
b. the Starbucks newsletter where outstanding employees are featured not only for their achievements at work but their achievements within the community.
c. the name given to plantations that supply Starbucks with superior coffee beans while still maintaining fair and humane treatment of its workers.
d. the Starbucks stock option plan for employees that allows them to share the rewards of their hard work.

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