Which option best defines the meaning of taxable income? a) all the income you receive, from all sources, over the course of the year. b) the amount of your income, after it has been reduced by exemptions, deductions, and credits, that is used to calculate the tax you owe. c) the total amount of your paycheck after taxes and other items were deducted. d) the total amount you earned before taxes and other items were deducted from your paycheck.

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.

your answer is going to be part c