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Income and Taxes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |