These include income from rent, royalties, interests, dividends, and annuities.

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This hits interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, rents, income from a passive trade or business, and realized capital gains other than passive.

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The income in question was mostly from music and film royalties paid to companies she owned between 2005 and 2008, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

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Besides books and other royalties, Orman's earned income has come mainly from selling insurance -- which gets much more attention in her book than do stocks or bonds.

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They do permit me to declare amounts that are the result of passive income and, to some extent, amounts that come in as royalties from projects I did some time ago as profits and take these as dividends.

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This means from a tax perspective that there are issues on allocation of the royalties between principle and income, that some trust (such as marital deduction trusts) might not be able to qualify for a deduction if funded with copyrights, and so forth.

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