Types of Taxes
Your Paycheck
Taxes in the USA
Financial Aid
College
100

You have to pay this every time you purchase something.

Sales Tax

100

This feature allows your paycheck to go directly into your bank account instead of recieving a paper check.

Direct Deposit

100

This is a child or a relative that you financially support.

Dependent

100

This financial aid is given based on merit and not need.

Scholarships

100

Another term for housing and food.

Room and Board

200

This "sin tax" is added to products that the government feels should be discouraged, like alcohol and tobacco.

Excise Tax

200

Money taken from your gross pay are known as this.

Deductions

200

This agency collects taxes.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

200

This kind of loan is usually easier to get, but you have to pay interest while in school.

Unsubsidized Loan

200

On vehicles, you probably aren't going to end up paying this displayed cost.

Sticker Price

300

These are the two primary payroll taxes United States citizens have withheld in their paycheck.

Medicare and Social Security

300

This form is completed and turned into your employer to help them determine what % of your gross pay will be withheld for income taxes.

W-4 Form

300

If the IRS suspects that your taxes are have been done incorrectly or you haven't paid your fair share, they will do this.

Audit

300

This is named after the Senator who championed its creation, this aid is given to students of financial need.

Pell Grant

300

PLUS loans are usually paid by graduate students and them.

Parents

400
Often referred to as the death tax, this is a payment when property is transferred after someone's death.

Estate Tax

400

This is the amount of money you end up with after withholding and taxes.

Net Pay

400

This is the form you submit when filing taxes.

1040

400

To accept a federal student loan, you will need to complete entrance counseling and sign this.

Promissory Note

400

This program give students the opportunity to find jobs through their college and earn money toward paying college expenses.

Work-Study

500

Sales taxes, Property taxes, and Sin taxes are all this, because the more people make, the less % of their income it is.

Regressive Tax

500

Garnishments like child support are deductions that have been mandated by what type of bodies?

The Courts

500

With the last two years being the exception, what date is officially known as Tax Day.

April 15

500

This is the first day in which FAFSA applications are accepted.

October 1

500

This is the long-term failure to repay your student loan, which could result in garnished wages, withholding of taxes or social security, and long-term credit score damage.

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