Allowances
Allowances (also known as exemptions) are certain dollar amounts of a person's income tax that will be considered nontaxable for income tax withholding purposes.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Allowances (also known as exemptions). Certain dollar amounts of a person's income tax that will be considered nontaxable for income tax withholding purposes.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.
