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Page 1: Anything Subtracted from your gross income.  Legal allowances that reduce the amount of income taxes subtracted from your gross income

CH 1.2 VOCAB

Page 2: Anything Subtracted from your gross income.  Legal allowances that reduce the amount of income taxes subtracted from your gross income

Deductions

Anything Subtracted from your gross income.

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Exemptions

Legal allowances that reduce the amount of income taxes subtracted from your gross income.

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Gross Income

Wages or salary before deductions for taxes and other purposes.

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Medicare

Federal government program, financed by deductions from wages, that pays for certain health expenses for older citizens.

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Net Income

Commonly called “Take home pay”; it is your income after deductions and exemptions.

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Social Security

A federal program that provides retirement, survivor’s, and disability benefits, funded by a tax on income, which appears on worker’s pay stubs as a deduction labeled FICA.

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FICA

Federal Income Contributions Act