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Income and Taxes

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biWeekly   appearing or taking place every two weeks or twice a week  
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Dependent   a person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.  
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Direct Deposit   the electronic transfer of a payment directly from the account of the payer to the recipient's account.  
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Earned Income   money derived from paid work.  
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Employee   a person employed for wages or salary, especially at non executive level.  
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Employer   a person or organization that employs people.  
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Exemptions   the process of exempting a person from paying taxes on a specified amount of income for themselves and their dependents.  
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Federal Income Tax   A federal income tax is a tax levied by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on the annual earnings of individuals, corporations, trusts and other legal entities.  
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FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act)   tax imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare  
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Fringe Benefits   an extra benefit supplementing an employee's salary, for example, a company car, subsidized meals, health insurance, etc.  
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Gross Income   An individual's total personal income, before accounting for taxes or deductions.  
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Hourly Wage   a rate an employer agrees to pay a worker per hour worked, such as $12 per hour or $17.50 per hour.  
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Income Tax   tax levied by a government directly on income, especially an annual tax on personal income.  
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Medicare Tax   The Medicare payroll tax is 2.9%. It applies only to earned income, which is wages you are paid by an employer, plus tips.  
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Net Income   is an entity's income minus cost of goods sold, expenses and taxes for an accounting period.  
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Overtime Pay   for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time and one-half their regular rates of pay.  
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Profit Sharing   a system in which the people who work for a company receive a direct share of the profits.  
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Salary   a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.  
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Sales Commissions   additional compensation the employee receives for exceeding expectations.  
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Social Security Tax   The current tax rate for social security is 6.2% for the employer and 6.2% for the employee, or 12.4% total.  
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Tax Deduction   The current tax rate for social security is 6.2% for the employer and 6.2% for the employee, or 12.4% total.  
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Tips   a sum of money given to someone as a reward for their services  
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W2 Form   form that an employer must send to an employee and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at the end of the year.  
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W4 Form   or an Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate, to indicate his tax situation to the employer.  
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Withholding Allowance   Employee-claimed exemptions on the tax form employers use to determine how much of an employee's pay to subtract from his or her paycheck to remit to the tax authorities.  
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