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Income and Taxes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 2.A sum of money paid regularly to a person, typically to meet specified needs or expenses. | Allowance |
| Earnings not paid out as dividends but instead reinvested in the core business or used to pay off debt. also called earned surplus or unappropriated profit or retained earning | accumulated earnings |
| The fee paid to a broker to execute a trade, based on number of shares, bonds, options, and/or their dollar value. | commissions |
| 2.An amount that is or may be deducted from something, esp. from taxable income or tax to be paid. | Deduction |
| Acceptance of a capital budgeting project contingent on the acceptance of another project | 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 who recieves a payment to work A person employed for wages or salary, esp. a nonexecutive. A person employed for wages or salary, esp. a nonexecutive. | Employee |
| someone who hires and supervizes people A person or organization that employs people. | Employer |
| 1.The process of freeing or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others. | Exemptions |
| An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or businesses (corporations or other legal entities). Various income tax... | 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, esp. 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 |
| An individual's total personal income before taking taxes or deductions into account | Net income |
| The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax is a United States payroll (or employment) tax imposed by the federal government on... | social security tax |
| (W-2 Forms) Wage and Tax Statement. The form used to report wages, tips, other compensation, withheld income and social security taxes | W-2 forms |
| IRS tax forms are used by taxpayers and tax-exempt organizations to report financial information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)... | W-4 forms |
| The amount of an employee's pay withheld by the employer and sent directly to the government as partial payment of income tax. | Witholding tax |