The amount you earn before taxes and other payroll deductions.
What is Gross Income?
When you are paid for the hours you work.
What are wages?
The basic tax form that you filled out in class.
What is Form 1040?
If you earn money, you must file this.
What is a tax return?
The portion of an employee’s pay held back to cover taxes and other deductions.
What are Withholdings?
Money you earn on a regular basis that requires little to no effort to keep it going.
What is Passive Income?
If you own property, you will have to pay this.
What is Property Tax?
What a person earns after payroll taxes and other deductions are taken out.
What is Net Income?
Money you receive from your investments as they grow.
What is Portfolio?
You may need to get this type of person to do your taxes. Especially if you are self-employed.
What is a Tax Professional?
What does the IRS stand for?
What is the Internal Revenue Service?
Spending more than you earn; an economic policy in which the government spends public funds raised by borrowing rather than by taxation
What is Deficit Spending?
What Net Income is also called.
What is "Take-home Pay?"
Together social security and medicare make up this tax that is withheld from your paycheck.
What is FICA?
An examination of your tax return by the IRS.
What is an Audit?
The total amount of debt a country owes to companies and other countries as a result of deficit spending
What is the National Debt?
Any income (wages/salary) that is generated by the work someone performs.
What is Earned Income?
The form you fill out before you get paid.
What is W-4?
Fees charged by the government to fund government expenses.
What are Taxes?