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Income and Taxes
Question | Answer |
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Every two weeks or twice a week | BiWeekly |
Requiring someone or something for financial support | Dependent |
Where your funds are electronically transfered to your checkings or savings account | Direct Deposit |
Money derived from paid work | Earned Income |
A person employed for wages and salary | Employee |
A person or organization that employs people | Employer |
The process of exempting(keeping) someone from having to pay taxes on a specific amount of income | Exemptions |
The tax levied by the IRS on the annual earnings of individuals | Federal Income Tax |
Federal Income Contributions Act- The US federal payroll tax | FICA |
An extra benefit supplementing an employees salary | Fringe benefits |
Your income before taxes | Gross Income |
The amount you get paid per hour | Hourly Wage |
Tax levied by a government directly on income | Income Tax |
A tax that employers are liable to withhold from employees’ paycheck | Medicare Tax |
The amount of money you get paid after taxes | Net Income |
Hourly pay x 1.5 x overtime hours worked. The pay you get for working overtime | Overtime Pay |
A program that awards employees a percentage of the company’s profits | Profit Sharing |
A regular fixed payment | Salary |
The percentage of the value of a sale the a sales associate/representative may earn | Sales Commission |
Tax levied on both on employers and employees to fund | Social Security Tax |
A tax that lowers a persons’s or organization’s tax liability | Tax Deduction |
A taxable payment given to an employee by a customer | Tips |
Records an employee’s annual wages and the amount of taxes withheld from their paycheck | W2 Form |
An IRS tax form that is filled out by employees to indicate their tax situation to their employer | W4 Form |
Takes a set payment from an employee and gives it to the government | Withholding |