Personal Exemption (United States)
A tax deduction for a personal exemption amount for the individual taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and the taxpayer's child or other dependent for purposes of calculating a U.S. taxpayer's federal income tax is provided in the Internal Revenue Code at 26 U.S.C. § 151. The personal exemption is allowed in the form of a deduction against the taxpayer's income in the computation to arrive at the taxable income amount against which the tax rates are applied to compute the income tax under 26 U.S.C. § 1.
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