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Business
Business(Income)
Question | Answer |
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What is income? | What a household receives from working,for child benefit if there are children and from other sources such as interest on savings etc |
What is regular income? | Income that a person i guaranteed to recieve |
Give an example of regular incom | Wages |
What is additional income? | Extra income that a person might recieve |
Give an example of additional income | Working extra hours or winning the lotto |
What is minimum wage? | The least amount of payment for the work done that an employer can legally pay his/her employee |
What is gross wage? | What a worker earns before deductions are made |
What is net wage? | The gross wage less the statuary and non-statuary deductions. It is known as the take home pay |
What is a statuary deduction? | Deductions,income tax and PRSI,witch must be paid to the government |
What are non-statuary deductions? | Deductions witch workers request their employers to take from their wages and pay to other people |
Give examples of non-statuary deductions | Savings,pensions,union fees,VHI |
What is a wage slip? | A document given by the employer to the employee setting out the gross pay,deductions made and the net,take home pay |
What is PRSI? | Pay related social insurance, another form of tax on income |
What is the formula for calculating the net wage? | Gross pay-deductions |