Accrued expenses and current portion of other long-term liabilities consist of the following:



	March 26,		September 25,
	2022		2021
Property, payroll and other taxes payable	$	14,013,131	$	22,621,486
Salaries, wages and bonuses payable		38,052,944		45,890,517
Self-insurance liabilities		13,346,387		13,319,556
Interest payable		4,411,506		4,481,104
Other		4,048,068		4,115,904
	$	73,872,036	$	90,428,567

Self-insurance liabilities are established for general liability claims, workers’ compensation and employee group medical and dental benefits based on claims filed and estimates of claims incurred but not reported. The Company is currently insured for covered costs in excess of $1.0 million per occurrence for workers’ compensation and for general liability and $450,000 per covered person for medical care benefits for a policy year. The Company’s self-insurance reserves totaled $32.3 million and $32.1 million at March 26, 2022 and September 25, 2021, respectively. Of this amount, $13.3 million is accounted for as a current liability and $19.0 million as a long-term liability, which is inclusive of $4.2 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that are recorded as a receivable at March 26, 2022. At September 25, 2021, $13.3 million was accounted for as a current liability and $18.8 million as a long-term liability, which is inclusive of $4.2 million of expected self-insurance recoveries from excess cost insurance or other sources that are recorded as a receivable.

Employee insurance expense, including workers’ compensation and medical care benefits, net of employee contributions, totaled $7.0 million and $8.2 million for the three-month periods ended March 26, 2022 and March 27, 2021, respectively. For the six-month periods ended March 26, 2022 and March 27, 2021, employee insurance expense, net of employee contributions totaled $20.3 million and $20.5 million, respectively.

The Company’s fuel operations contain underground tanks for the storage of gasoline and diesel fuel. The Company reviewed FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 410 (“FASB ASC 410”) and determined we have a legal obligation to remove tanks at a point in the future and accordingly determined we have met the requirements of an asset retirement obligation. The Company followed the FASB ASC 410 model for determining the asset retirement cost and asset retirement obligation. The amounts recorded are immaterial for each fuel center as well as in the aggregate at March 26, 2022 and September 25, 2021.