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income and taxes

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bi weekly   periodical that appears every two weeks or twice a week.  
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dependent   requiring someone or something for financial, emotional, or other 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 nonexecutive level.  
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employer   a person or organization that employs people  
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expemption   the process of freeing or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.  
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federal incom 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 (FICA) is a United States federal payroll tax imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare—federal programs  
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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. 2. A company's revenue minus cost of goods sold. Also called gross profit and, when it is expressed as a percentage of revenue, gross margin.  
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hourly wage   an estimated hourly rate calculated using the varying hourly rates of a group of workers in a specific occupation.  
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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   Investment & Finance Definition  
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net income   is the residual amount of earnings after all expenses have been deducted from sales.  
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overtime pay   s time and one-half of the employee's regular rate 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   Social Security tax is usually collected in the form of payroll tax or self-employment tax.  
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tax deduction   is a reduction of income that is able to be taxed, and is commonly a result of expenses, particularly those incurred to produce additional income.  
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tips   a sum of money given to someone as a reward for their services.  
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w2 form   he W-2 form reports an employee's annual wages and the amount of taxes withheld from his or her paycheck.  
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w4 form   ells the employer the correct amount of tax to withhold from an employee's paycheck based on the employee's marital status, number of exemptions and dependents and other factors.  
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withholdiong allowance   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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