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Income and Taxes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pay every two weeks | Bi-weekly |
| Relying on someone else for financial support | Dependent |
| automatic deposit of funds into your bank account electronically | Direct Deposit |
| any income that is received from a job or self-employment | earned income |
| an employed person | employee |
| someone who employs another person | employer |
| process of exempting someone from paying taxes on a certain income | exemptions |
| tax level levied by the IRS | federal income tax |
| Federal Insurance Contributions Act which is deducted out of each paycheck | FICA |
| extra benefit that supplements an employees salary such as a company car | Fringe benefits |
| total income of all sources | gross income |
| annual salary/2080 (pay per hour) | hourly wage |
| tax levied by a government directly on income | income tax |
| federal tax that supports medicare | medicare tax |
| sales minus the cost of goods | net income |
| one and a half times regular pay when working over 40 hours in a week | overtime pay |
| gives employees a share of the company's quarterly or annually earnings | profit sharing |
| fixed amount of money given to worker in exchange fr work performed | salary |
| percentage of a sale that a sales rep or associate can earn | sales commission |
| tax levied on both employers and employees to fund the Social Security program | social security tax |
| lowers a person's or an organization's tax liability by lowering their taxable income | tax deduction |
| Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, provide protection against inflation | tips |
| reflects your income earned and taxes withheld from the prior year to be reported on your income tax returns | W2 form |
| lets employers know how much taxes to with-hold from their employees | W4 form |
| refusal to give something that is due or desired | with-holding |