0 money that you get from investments and property that you own, instead of earning by working
1 income that comes from investment in shares, bonds, etc. rather than from a salary or the sale of goods, etc.:
Unearned income is the reverse of the above.
One can, to some extent, translate the above analysis of earned and unearned income into an evaluation of types of tax.
States that have mineral wealth or other sources of ' unearned income ', never face the need to develop organisational skills.
These figures imply the beginnings of urban manufacturing investment in land and also an increase in ' genteel ' lending to provide unearned income.
This distinction between earned and unearned income would seem to be an important one.
Often income earned from oil, minerals, and foreign aid are used as examples of the sources of unearned income.
This is true of unearned income.
This approach ensures that joint consideration will have been given to the balance between the taxes on earned and unearned income.
