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Any income that comes from investments and other sources unrelated to employment services.
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Examples of unearned income include interest from a savings account, bond interest, tips, alimony, and dividends from stock. As long as this income is "realized" then it is taxable.
Accounting: income received but not yet earned, such as rent received in advance or other advances from customers. Unearned income is usually classified as a Current Liability on a company's Balance Sheet assuming that it will be credited to income within the normal accounting cycle. See also Deferred Charge.
Income taxes: income from sources other than wages, salaries, tips, and other employee compensation-for example, Dividends, Interest, rent.
The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
(taxes) personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income)
Synonym: unearned revenue
Meaning #2:
(accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet)
Synonym: unearned revenue
Unearned income refers to income that is not a wage.
It includes interest, dividends or realized capital gains from investments, rent from land or property ownership, and any other income that does not derive from work.
Unearned income has often been treated differently for tax purposes than earned income, in order to redistribute income. Such a tax structure is most often seen implemented by a
In more recent times the pendulum has swung the other way, and most western countries tax unearned income more favourably than income from work.
Some economists claim that unearned income is compensation for deferring consumption, freeing up those resources to be invested in improving the future, by funding research and development of new technologies and services, capital equipment and education to improve the productivity of labor and so forth. This view also holds that unearned income provides an incentive to save, and capital markets facilitate allocation of resources to those enterprises which will provide the best economic benefit. Extra taxes on unearned income can interfere with these mechanisms. This point of view also asserts that all income is ultimately earned, and ask why tax should be higher on work that was done 100 years ago than work that is done today.
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