With just a few exceptions, that includes nearly every person I have ever worked with, a big chunk of my extended family, most of my friends going all the way back to elementary school and probably all the kids who were in my nursery at the hospital where I was born.

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As in just about everything, there are exceptions to the general tax rules for ETFs.

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On taxation, for instance, they demand that the muddled system be drastically pruned, leaving just three main rates and no exceptions.

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With very few exceptions, he was just as good as Kuroda.

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But down at the street level, global statistics break down, and the nuances of and exceptions to the data become just as important.

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But for now, you will not pay tax on the amount of employer-related health care benefits reported in 2011 (some exceptions, such as HRA distributions which are not for reimbursed expenses apply just as they always have).

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This has had a remarkable effect not just on Thais but on successive generations of Western diplomats, academics and journalists who, with few exceptions, have meekly censored themselves.

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And just last year, U.S. congressman Pete Stark proposed the not-so-subtly-named Narrowing Exceptions for Withholding Tax, or NEWT, Act.

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