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Taxes Terms

  1. Standard Mileage Rate

  2. State Income Tax

  3. Stealth Taxes

  4. Step-Up In Basis

  5. Stock Savings Plan

  6. Student Loan Interest Deduction

  7. Subchapter S (S Corporation)

  8. Support Test

  9. Surcharge

  10. Surtax

  11. Suspended Loss

  12. Take-Home Pay

  13. Tax Accounting

  14. Tax Advisor

  15. Tax And Price Index - TPI

  16. Tax Arbitrage

  17. Tax Attribute

  18. Tax Avoidance

  19. Tax Base

  20. Tax Benefit

  21. Tax Bracket

  22. Tax Break

  23. Tax Cheat

  24. Tax Clawback Agreement

  25. Tax Code

  26. Tax Court

  27. Tax Credit

  28. Tax Deduction

  29. Tax Deed

  30. Tax Deferred

  31. Tax Drag

  32. Tax Equity And Fiscal Responsibility Act Of 1982 - TEFRA

  33. Tax Evasion

  34. Tax Exempt

  35. Tax Expense

  36. Tax Fairness

  37. Tax Fraud

  38. Tax Free

  39. Tax Freedom Day

  40. Tax Gain/Loss Harvesting

  41. Tax Haven

  42. Tax Home

  43. Tax Identification Number - TIN

  44. Tax Incidence

  45. Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 - TIPRA

  46. Tax Indexing

  47. Tax Liability

  48. Tax Lien

  49. Tax Lien Certificate

  50. Tax Lien Foreclosure

  51. Tax Loss Carryforward

  52. Tax Lot Accounting

  53. Tax Planning

  54. Tax Preference Item

  55. Tax Rate

  56. Tax Reform Act Of 1986

  57. Tax Reform Act Of 1993

  58. Tax Refund

  59. Tax Refund Anticipation Loan - RAL

  60. Tax Relief

  61. Tax Return

  62. Tax Roll

  63. Tax Sale

  64. Tax Schedule

  65. Tax Season

  66. Tax Selling

  67. Tax Service Fee

  68. Tax Shelter

  69. Tax Shield

  70. Tax Swap

  71. Tax Table

  72. Tax Treaty

  73. Tax Umbrella

  74. Tax Wedge

  75. Tax Year

  76. Tax-Advantaged

  77. Tax-Deferred Savings Plan

  78. Tax-Efficient Fund

  79. Tax-Exempt Interest

  80. Tax-Exempt Security

  81. Tax-Free Savings Account - TFSA

  82. Taxable Bond

  83. Taxable Estate

  84. Taxable Event

  85. Taxable Gain

  86. Taxable Income

  87. Taxable Spinoff

  88. Taxation

  89. Taxation Without Representation

  90. Taxes

  91. Taxpayer

  92. Taxpayer Advocate Service

  93. Taxpayer Bill Of Rights (TABOR)

  94. Taxpayer Identification Number - TIN

  95. Taxpayer Relief Act Of 1997

  96. Telefile

  97. Teletax

  98. Terminal Year

  99. The Smith Maneuver

  100. Three-Year Rule

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    The amount of time necessary for the premium on an insurance policy to cover the commissions, the cost of investigation, medical exams and other expenses associated with the issuance of the policy.

  2. Winner's Curse

    Because of incomplete information, emotions or any other number of factors regarding the item being auctioned, bidders can have a difficult time determining the item's intrinsic value. As a result, the largest overestimation of an item's value ends up winning the auction.

  3. Glocalization

    A combination of the words "globalization" and "localization" used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally, but is also fashioned to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market.

  4. Disaster Loss

    A special type of tax-deductible loss, similar to a casualty loss, where a loss has been incurred by taxpayers who reside in an area that has been designated as a federal disaster area by the President.

  5. Fool In The Shower

    The notion that changes or policies designed to alter the course of the economy should be done slowly, rather than all at once.

  6. Pattern Day Trader

    An SEC designation for traders who trade the same security four or more times per day (buys and sells) over a five-day period, and for whom same-day trades make up at least 6% of their activity for that period.
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