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PCS Financial Math
Chapter 2 Vocabulary - Net Income
Term | Definition |
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federal income tax | money withheld by an employer form an employee's paycheck to pay federal government taxes |
personal exemptions | the number of people an employee supports, on which taxes are based also called withholding allowances |
graduated income tax | an income tax in which the tax rate increases at different levels of income |
Social Security | a federal government program to pay for retirement and disability benefits, financed by taxes |
Medicare | a federal government program to provide medical insurance, financed by taxes |
group insurance | insurance offered by many businesses to employees, paid in part by the business and in part by deductions from employees' paychecks |
net pay | the amount of money you actually receive in your paycheck after deductions, also called take-home pay |