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Article #211: Understanding the Three Different Types of Income

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Part of learning to become financially payments that you receive from the assets
free is to begin to understand that there you have created. These payments usually
are three different types of income. They come monthly, and require little or no
are: capital gains, passive income, and work for you to receive them. Some types
earned income. They are the three types of assets that produce passive income are
of ways to make money, and are very easy rental properties, dividend stocks, and
to understand. businesses. Assets that produce passive
Capital Gains - When you buy a stock, and income continue to do so until the asset
sell it for a higher price, you have made is liquidated (sold). Passive income is
a capital gain. If you buy a house and what makes a person rich. If a person has
then later sell it for a profit, you have more than enough passive income to cover
made a capital gain. If you buy an his or her expenses, that person is rich.
antique at a low price and then sell it Earned Income - Earned income is the
for a nice profit, you have made a primary source of income for most
capital gain. Capital gains are not American's today. Any type of job that
passive income. They are a one-time pays an hourly wage, pays earned income.
payment that you receive from an People who rely only on earned income,
investment because your investment has pay the most taxes. Federal, State,
increased in value. Investing for Capital Unemployment, Social Security, and
Gains is great because you can keep your Medicare taxes are all deducted from a
money moving, instead of just letting it persons paycheck. With passive income and
sit in the bank. The government loves to capital gains, the types of taxes you pay
tax capital gains, especially if you (if you have to pay any at all) depend on
bought and sold your investment in less your investment. Earned income is not
than one year. Lets say you buy a stock, necessarily a bad thing. Having a job or
and the stock doubles in price during the career is a great way to earn the capital
week so you decide to sell it. You've required in order to create assets.
made a nice capital gain, but the Almost everyone who starts his or her own
government could take as much as 35% on journey to financial freedom begins with
that capital gain, depending where you earned income. Relying solely on earned
are in the income-tax bracket. If you income should be temporary. In America
hold onto your investment for a year or today, many people rely on earned income
more, the government rewards you with a alone, and saving most their earned
more favorable capital gains tax rate. income for many years until they retire.
Passive Income - Passive income is






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