It may appear that ramping up your hours to materially participate in an activity is a no-brainer, because by converting the activity from passive to nonpassive, you can pull the resulting income out of the computation of net investment income and save an extra 3.8% in tax.
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Latest filings show little or no charitable activity for tax-exempts created or championed by Jerry Bruckheimer, Don King, Mike Tyson and Julia Roberts (whose spokesman says it never really got off the ground).
In studies, fully rested people show lots of activity in that part of the brain, while the sleep-deprived show little to no activity.
Mount Rainier is also an active volcano - although there has been no activity since the 1850s and geologists say there is no imminent threat of eruption.
All this activity has brought -- no surprise -- critics to the forefront.
The powers allow officers to stop and search people in certain areas, even when there is no direct suspicion of involvement in terrorism-related activity.
The old investment banks, when they existed as free-standing institutions, could engage in no activity that didn't present a conflict with other customer interests.
Judge Silberman takes us completely through the looking glass when he complains that there is no support for a distinction between activity and non-activity in the text of the Constitution.
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Equally striking is the fact that the paper makes no mention of physical activity, diet, or socio-economic status.
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No wonder electricity usage--the best indicator of household spending and activity--is plummeting.
Max Mosley believes we have absolutely no right to know about certain types of activity that take place in private - including most sexual activity - unless the activity is relevant to a person's public work.
Despite all the sideline activity, Stronach has no intention of easing himself out of the day-to-day affairs of the automotive company.
By producing vast quantities of it, backed by no real economic activity, it has reduced the meaning and value of each new and pre-existing ticket.
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The members of the European Council have demonstrated in Brussels that they have fallen into a period of stupor following the French and Dutch "No" votes to the Constitution - if stupor is what is understood by a decrease in the activity of higher intellectual functions...
Nonetheless, businesses do not anticipate a significant acceleration in activity anytime soon, as expectations regarding the outlook into mid-next year have shown no meaningful improvement.
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