For the super rich, a drastic drop in the tax-free amount would have been a huge loss.
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Under the looming threat of the fiscal cliff, lawyers worked overtime during the holiday season to set up trusts and fund them with gifts that made maximum use of the tax-free amount.
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That was the tax-free amount he had to give up when he agreed to break his contract with the Kuwaiti FA, to whom he was contracted to until August 1, to succeed Craig Brown in March.
They will also have to provide more capital against such assets as government debt, hitherto regarded as risk-free, and increase the amount set aside for foreign-exchange dealings.
Andrew Carter, Conservative group leader, said the decision was "absolute lunacy" when other cities, including neighbouring Bradford, were looking at extending the amount of free-parking available.
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Unfortunately, because QE involves the exchange of one risk-free asset (bank reserves) for another (Treasury securities), QE does nothing to increase the amount of risk-free assets available to the market.
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The new site allows 50GB of free storage upon sign-up - more than twice the amount if the user is signed up for free accounts with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Dropbox put together.
Just as cities, states and other institutions using tax-free bonds to finance their operations will vehemently oppose the proposal to reduce by 25% the amount of the interest paid by municipalities that is now treated as tax-free income.
In the U.S., spouses can give or leave each other any amount of money, tax-free, as long as they're both U.S. citizens.
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But the UK study suggested that instead of offering protection, some hands-free kits acted as aerials and tripled the amount of radiation reaching the brain.
This means that, depending on your usage -- and the amount of your ETF -- you could effectively score more than a year of free mobile service from Ting.
If you needed to, you could take out up to the amount contributed into your Roth IRA both tax-free and penalty free.
For example, you can withdraw the amount of any scholarships your child earns penalty-free or use the money for education expenses of a relative of the child if they decide not to go to school at all.
With FSAs, employees can have a certain amount of money deducted from their paychecks, tax-free, for medical expenses.
The new Flexible Spending Account Tax limits the amount of money that workers can set aside tax-free for medical costs.
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All told, there's a small deluge of new features that could amount to a lot, even excluding new hands-free elements like Smart Scroll.
While the feature is in beta, there's also no limit to how much storage space you use up, and there's no auto-delete function after any amount of time, so feel free to upload to your heart's content.
Griesing's organization vigorously fought the move to phosphate-free until Washington State passed a law in March 2006 limiting the amount of phosphates in household dishwasher detergent sold in that state to 0.5%, or a trace amount, effective July 1, 2010 (in most of the state).
You pay income tax on the amount you convert, but all future growth is tax-free.
But the Telegraph is the second major newspaper in the UK after the Financial Times to implement the so-called metered model, which allows a certain amount of access free of charge.
That uncertainty has fueled a lucrative business for estate planners as the amount that their clients could transfer to subsequent generations tax-free kept threatening to drop, but only went up, as noted here.
This tax is assessed to filers who have large amounts of certain types of income, such as ISO bargain elements or municipal bond interest, and is designed to ensure that the taxpayer pays at least a minimal amount of tax on income that would otherwise be tax-free.
Wal-Mart may improve its sales by offering free shipping, but if there is no minimum purchase amount, small value purchases could lead to the retailer bearing higher expenses relative to sales.
Yvonne Fovargue said she wanted to "level the playing field between the fee-charging debt management companies who can spend a considerable amount of money on advertising and the free agencies who put all of their money into providing a service and consequently may not be as well known".
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