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income and taxes

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bi weekly   every two weeks  
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dependent   someone or something relying on help  
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direct deposit   a electronic transferring payment into a persons bank account  
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earned income   money deprived from paid work  
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employee   person employed fr wages and salary  
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employer   someone who hires other people  
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exemptions   stopping someone from paying taxes with a certain amount of income for them or there dependents  
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federal income tax   tax taken by the state on annual earnings for individuals  
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FICA (abbreviation and definition)   (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) creates a payroll requiring deduction from paychecks  
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Fringe Benefits   extra money supplementing the employees salary  
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Gross income   Total amount of income earned annually  
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Hourly Wage   how much you make an hour  
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Income tax   tax levied by a government directly on income  
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Medicare Tax   used to fund the medicare program  
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Net income   Net income also refers to an individual's income after taking taxes and deductions into account.  
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Overtime pay   overtime pay is time and one-half of the employee's regular rate of pay  
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Profit Sharing   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  
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Sales commissions   Commission is a sum of money that is paid to an employee upon completion of a task, usually selling a certain amount of goods or services  
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Social Security Tax   ocial Security tax is usually collected in the form of payroll tax or self-employment tax  
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Tax Deduction   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 customarily given by a client or customer to a service worker, in addition to the basic price  
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W2 form   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   Form W-4 is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax form completed by an employee in the United States to indicate his or her 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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