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Income and Taxes
| an amount of a person's income that is not subject to a particular tax and is therefore deducted before his or her liability to taxation is assessed | allowance |
| Earnings not paid out as dividends but instead reinvested in the core business or used to pay off debt | Accumulated Earnings |
| paid entirely or partially with commissions from sales one has made or for work one has done | Commissions |
| The action of deducting or subtracting something | Deduction |
| A person who relies on another | Dependent |
| The electronic transfer of a payment directly from the account of the payer to the recipient's account | Direct Deposit |
| Money derived from paid work. | Earned Income |
| A person employed for wages or salary | Employee |
| A person or organization that employs people | Employer |
| The process of exempting a person from paying taxes on a specified amount of income for themselves and their dependents | Exemptions |
| An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or businesses | Federal Income Tax |
| Federal Insurance Contributions Act | FICA |
| An individual's total personal income before taking taxes or deductions into account | Gross Income |
| Money received on a regular basis, for work or through investments | Income |
| The Federal government has set forth that employers must make deductions from employees’ paychecks for Social Security and Medicare | Medicare Tax |
| An individual's total personal income AFTER taking taxes or deductions into account | Net Income |
| tax levied on both employers and employees used to fund the Social Security program | Social Security Tax |
| The form used to report wages, tips, other compensation | W-2 Form |
| IRS tax forms are used by taxpayers and tax-exempt organizations to report financial information to the Internal Revenue Service | W-4 Form |
| A portion of an employee's wages or salary withheldby the employer as partial payment of the employee's income tax | Withholding |