Journal entries for General Fund financial transactions for Croton City Help me with Journal entry 10, 11,12. please At year-end, the uncollected property taxes were declared delinquent. The existing allowance for uncollectible taxes is reclassified to delinquent. Croton’s director of finance estimated that $500 of the uncollected taxes would be collected in January and February 2020 and $400 would be collected during the rest of 2020. In January 2020, the state advised Croton that the state held $500 in personal income taxes on the city’s behalf and that it would send the taxes to Croton by February 10. It also told Croton that it was likely that, by April 30, Croton would receive an additional $200 of taxes with final returns, but that tax refunds would probably be $300. (Remember that “available” for income taxes is defined as taxes expected to be collected within 120 days after the end of the calendar year.) Police officers who retired at the end of 2019 will be paid $10 for unused vacation pay on January 6, 2020

Journal entries for General Fund financial transactions for Croton City Help me with Journal entry 10, 11,12. please At year-end, the uncollected property taxes were declared delinquent. The existing allowance for uncollectible taxes is reclassified to delinquent. Croton’s director of finance estimated that $500 of the uncollected taxes would be collected in January and February 2020 and $400 would be collected during the rest of 2020. In January 2020, the state advised Croton that the state held $500 in personal income taxes on the city’s behalf and that it would send the taxes to Croton by February 10. It also told Croton that it was likely that, by April 30, Croton would receive an additional $200 of taxes with final returns, but that tax refunds would probably be $300. (Remember that “available” for income taxes is defined as taxes expected to be collected within 120 days after the end of the calendar year.) Police officers who retired at the end of 2019 will be paid $10 for unused vacation pay on January 6, 2020

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