What is the difference between generating active income versus passive income?
This topic relates to the question about creating wealth versus making money.
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Apr 10, 2014
Passive activities are trades or businesses in which the taxpayer does not materially participate, and/or rental activities. Rental activities are inherently passive according to the IRS, pending a few exceptions.
Therefore, a taxpayer must materially participate in a trade or business to be considered “active.”
Jan 10, 2014
Hi There. The difference between generating active income versus passive income is like this. Active income is sitting at your desk at your job. Passive income is sailing on the ocean with your lover. Active income is your JOB - Passive Income typically is any Joint Venture you have where your involvement is minimal and your partnership is generating income and depositing it into your bank account on a regular basis without too much work involved. Hope that helps.
Jan 10, 2014
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Jan 10, 2014
Anita,
Passive income comes from investments where you are not an active participant in generating the wealth - your money is doing the work. Examples are rental income, stock dividends, etc. Active income is derived from your own labor - not necessarily an hourly wage, but whatever you earn by spending your time at it.
Active Income: Your time generates it.
Passive income: Your wealth generates it.
Jan 9, 2014
Passive Income as defined by the IRS is usually coming from two sources: rental activity or "trade or business activities in which you do not materially participate.
Non Passive income examples include Royalties (per IRS) , interest, dividends, annuities, and gains from stocks and bonds, lottery winnings, salaries, wages, commissions, retirement income, guaranteed payments for services are considered by the IRS to be non-passive
Jan 9, 2014
Active income can also be called working income since a person has to physically go out and do an activity in order to receive income. Passive income is nonworking income. An example of nonworking income is rent and/or interest received from a bank. I would always prefer to receive nonworking income compared to working income and I would doubt if anyone would not agree with that idea.
Jan 8, 2014
Passive income is exactly what it says. Passive. You do not need to do anything, but collect a check. A business owner's income would NOT be passive. They have to work actively to continue generating income. A municipal bond, which pays X amount in interest semi annually or quarterly would be a PASSIVE income. You own the bond and every six months you receive a check. Rental income from investment property would NOT be PASSIVE if you had to go and fix broken items yourself. If you have someone who manages all your property for you and you just collect all the rental income checks, then it is passive. There can be fine lines between the two. Be careful! Passive income has another name, which is RESIDUAL income. All the wealthy have this residual, or passive income working for them. No one truly wealthy has active income as their main source of funds.
Jan 8, 2014
Simply put, passive income is that in which you do something once and it continues to pay you such as rental income, an investment, etc. Active income is a one for one exchange. If you do a project you get paid for it (e.g. you mow a yard).
Jan 6, 2014
Active Income is generated from your own work, Passive Income is generated from leveraging people, money or assets and do not require any action.
Jan 5, 2014
Tom is right. Active income (earned income) is money from your job. You work an hour, you get paid for that hour. Passive income is the money you make whether you go to work or not. Its residual. Some common examples are royalties (from books, music, or patents) and collecting rent from properties.
Jan 4, 2014
Traditionally active income has been described as income that requires active involvement form the earner of that income and passive supposedly comes with very little ingoing action. But I have yet to see a truly passive income stream that doesn't require some oversight. . Perhaps the closest may be royalties.