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Simple English definitions for legal terms

income

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A quick definition of income:

Income is money that you get for doing something or investing your money. It can come from working, owning a business, or having money in the bank. The government can tax your income, which means they take a portion of it to pay for things like schools and roads. There are different types of income, like wages, salary, and rental income. When you calculate your income for taxes, you start with your gross income, which is all the money you made. Then you subtract some things, like deductions, to get your taxable income, which is the amount the government can tax.

A more thorough explanation:

Income refers to the money or value that an individual or business entity receives in exchange for providing a good or service or through investing capital. This can include:

  • Wages, salary, commissions, and business profits
  • Interest from securities and bank accounts
  • Tips and rental income
  • Transfer payments, gifts, and inheritances
  • Income in kind, such as the value of free parking provided by an employer
  • The net increase in the real value of a person's assets

The federal government is allowed to tax income under the 16th Amendment, and state governments may also have their own income tax regimes. For example, New York's Tax Code defines taxable income in reference to the federal income tax regime.

For federal income tax purposes, income is divided into three categories:

  • Gross income: includes all income from whatever source derived, such as compensation for services, income from business, gains from property, interest, rents, royalties, dividends, annuities, income from life insurance, pensions, income from discharge of indebtedness, and more.
  • Adjusted gross income: gross income minus allowable deductions.
  • Taxable income: the income subject to government taxation after allowable deductions are taken and adjustments are made.

For example, if someone earns $50,000 in wages and $5,000 in rental income, their gross income would be $55,000. If they have $10,000 in allowable deductions, their adjusted gross income would be $45,000. Finally, if their taxable income is subject to a 20% tax rate, they would owe $9,000 in federal income taxes.

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JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:39
I thought it was always t6 and t3
soap
10:39
If you’re aiming for T14, that’s definitely doable
10:39
nah t4 is a thing, maybe old ive been on lsa and lsd for like 4 years now lol
m10
10:39
Fuck this all reminds me. I got to call and see if I am still being deposed.
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:40
@Mostlylegal: oh oops hehe
BulbasaurNoLikeCardio
10:40
@m10: most of PSYOP are guys who failed SFAS and Ranger so much so they can't go back and think being SOCOM makes them SF. I loved the cultural side of it all, going to embassies and running influence operations. Doing KLEs and training with foreign militaries was amazing. Learned so much about the world by talking to those who live all over it. Then got lucky and worked with a Marine HIT overseas and would tag along when they kidnapped people to do some stuff lol The rest of the time was a lot of reports and KLEs
babycat
10:40
t4 is a concept being perpetuated by Big Chicago
soap
10:41
Chicago rejected me in undergrad, so I have beef
shaquilleoatmeal
10:41
Was there an hls ii wave yesterday?? Didn’t go online at all and feel out of the loop lmfao
m10
10:42
@BulbasaurNoLikeCardio: Did not know that but it makes sense. That sounds like a cool career. I would have liked to have done that too. I really would have just liked to have gone OCONUS once.
m10
10:44
I was talking to this 88H in a bar last weekend and he had some wild story about being interrogated by the FBI and CIA and shit to get a top-secret clearance or something so he could drive a forklift around Europe, Korea, and Africa. It sounded like a bunch of bullshit to me but do you know if something like that could be true?
babycat
10:45
@shaquilleoatmeal: yeah so I’ve heard
i don't know any of this military talk but i was going to be a combat medic or trauma surgeon for so long before i went this track lol, so my only exposure is seriously looking and visiting places like west point for recruitment lol. i speak russian so everyone always told me that raises your chances at those places lol
my brother is a combat medic too
BulbasaurNoLikeCardio
10:46
@m10: was a great career, the main job is being a cultural expert building rapport and relationships with foreign nationals, militaries and even people hostile to make the area safer and at times bring in the ODAs or three letter guys to train, arm and fund them to aid in their(our) cause. OCONUS is great but not necessary, I only did two real deployments but a lot of missions to places. That is all 110% BS. I have a TS-SCI, worked with federal agencies they do nothing crazy like that.
shaquilleoatmeal
10:47
Damn - 3rd invite missed smh no love for me from hls
m10
10:49
@jackfrost11770: That's like a huge pitfall. People say it's easy to get into like med school or law school through West Point and it is not at all. Yeah, Russian would make you very valuable to them. You will see West Point people in law school but that's very few compared to how many went through the prelaw program there. Best just to enlist and become a combat medic. I've seen like 4 of em here anyway so you didn't really miss anything by going straight to law school.
BulbasaurNoLikeCardio
10:49
I "speak" Dutch but never used it after training back in 2012. Russian is great if you can get into INTEL but outside of that they would just assign you a lot of NATO roles if you go EUCOM. If you go Jag it may score you a nice job in Europe but at this point with the lack of benefits the military would give you just go state department as an attorney and you will travel the world.
m10
10:50
@BulbasaurNoLikeCardio: Oh yeah, I get that. My buddy just got back from Jordan and he gained like 25 lbs there just being a fat ass doordashing for 50 cents a delivery.
yeah haha i mean i was like 15 so i didn't know anything, and yeah that makes complete sense. my main thing was that i knew i didn't want to go to medical school and i didn't want to straight out enlist so that kinda closed the door on that
glovediedthisishismom
10:50
please listen
m10
10:51
@BulbasaurNoLikeCardio: indeed, it could but I could also just like visit on my own time. Though I have met like 10 or so JAG officers that got an Italian or French or Spanish wife while over in Europe so that is cool.
but i'd love to talk to you about that sometime if that's alright because i've been seriously considering INTEL and other similar roles but i know quite literally nothing about it and don't know where to start researching
m10
10:52
@glovediedthisishismom: oh my god that guy is a psychopath. Tjhat guy scares me.
m10
10:52
@jackfrost11770: Best bet if going law route is Law School to JAG to either Mead or Gordon imo then.
m10
10:53
NSA shit to start. If you can go straight into a GS job then you should go for it.
BulbasaurNoLikeCardio
10:54
@jackfrost11770: I have my undergrad in Intelligence and Terrorism and worked a good bit in the IC so I can answer some broad questions but not many direct because the nature of the field. If you want to go to law school and get your JD it really depends what intel work you would want to do and where you want to live.
thank you!! yeah i also know they always need STEM grads ofc, so i know i have that going for me as well
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