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taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.

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How to use ordinary income in a sentence

But it was (and is) quite possible that dividends could go back to being taxed as ordinary income at pre-Bush levels.
Fiscal Cliff Spurs Record Special Dividend Payouts|Matthew Zeitlin|December 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So eliminate the corporate income tax, and tax capital gains and dividends as ordinary income.
How Can the Republicans Take Back the Majority?|Megan McArdle|November 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The ordinary income was 2000 a year less than was required to meet the expenditure.
Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888|Edward VII
His ordinary income was generally twelve pounds a year, and never above eighteen.
Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country|John Pagen White

Twenty million pounds, when the ordinary income of the State amounts scarcely to seven millions!
Through the Iron Bars|Emile Cammaerts