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Income and Taxes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biweekly | appearing or taking place every two weeks or twice a week. |
| Dependent | requiring someone or something for financial, emotional, or other support |
| Direct Deposit | the electronic transfer of a payment directly from the account of the payer to the recipient's account. |
| Earned Income | money derived from paid work. |
| Employee | a person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level. |
| Employer | a person or organization that employs people. |
| Exemptions | the process of freeing or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others. |
| Federal Income Taxes | a tax levied by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on the annual earnings of individuals, corporations, trusts, and other legal entities. |
| FICA | a U.S. law that creates a payroll tax requiring a deduction from the paychecks of employees as well as a contribution from employers. |
| Fringe Benefits | an extra benefit supplementing an employee's salary, for example, a company car, subsidized meals, health insurance, etc. |
| Gross Income | represents the amount of money a person earns in one year from all sources before taxes |
| Hourly Wage | a rate an employer agrees to pay a worker per hour worked, such as $12 per hour or $17.50 per hour. |
| Income Tax | tax levied by a government directly on income, especially an annual tax on personal income. |
| Medicare Tax | is used to fund the government's Medicare program, which provides subsidized healthcare and hospital insurance benefits to retirees and the disabled. |
| Net Income | an individual's income after taking taxes and deductions into account. |
| Overtime Pay | is time and one-half of the employee's regular rate of pay. |
| Profit Sharing | refers to various incentive plans introduced by businesses that provide direct or indirect payments to employees that depend on company's profitability in addition to employees' regular salary and bonuses |
| Salary | a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker. |
| Sales Commission | a fee paid based on a percentage of the sale made by an employee or agent, as distinguished from regular payments of wages or salary |
| Social Security | any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income. |
| Tax Deduction | a reduction of income that is able to be taxed and is commonly a result of expenses, particularly those incurred to produce additional income |
| Tips | money given to a waiter or waitress for doing a good job surving food |
| W2 Forms | the form that an employer must send to an employee and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at the end of the year. |
| W4 Forms | tells the employer the correct amount of tax to withhold from an employee's paycheck based on the employee's marital status, number of exemptions and dependents and other factors |
| With holding Allowance | tax form employers use to determine how much of an employee's pay to subtract from his or her paycheck to remit to the tax authorities |
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