Toddsterpatriot
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- Gross income includes wages, dividends, capital gains, business and retirement income as wellas all other forms income.
- Examples of income include tips, rents, interest, stock dividends, etc.
- Adjustments to income are deductions that reduce total income to arrive at AGI.
- Examples of adjustments include half of the self-employment taxes you pay; self-employed health insurance premiums; contributions to certain retirement accounts (such as a traditional IRA); student loan interest paid; educator expenses, etc.
Retirement income is taxable because it's income. Weird.
You pay a 10% tax because of early withdrawal
Yes, they call that an early withdrawal tax, not an income tax.
There is also a tax if you put too much into a retirement account and a tax if you don't
withdraw enough from a retirement account.
Are you learning yet?