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Therefore, every deduction and personal or dependency exemption you claim on your federal income tax return counts as a write-off. Each write-off reduces your taxable income, so it’s beneficial ...

In order to best help these institutions, it’s important to have a better understanding of who they are. This is the story of what counts as a rural college.

But what counts as sexual harassment, and what should you do if you encounter it at work? Sexual harassment is unwanted behaviour of a sexual nature, says Alison Loveday, an employment lawyer and ...

Because of the depth of this world-building, however, it can become difficult to answer a fairly simple question: what parts of this fictional world actually count as Middle-Earth? The answer ...

Activities such as on the job learning, projects, problem solving, research, conferences, mentoring, volunteering, technical learning, management training and so much more – all count as valid CPD.

One non-exerciser said that walking her dog got in the way of being active, implying that she thought that walking her dog didn’t count as exercise (it does). Thinking about exercise in these ...

So the excess of gifts over the annual threshold counts toward this lifetime limit. A single person who gives several gifts ...

If that's not confusing enough, astronomers also have varying definitions for what counts as a supermoon and what counts as a blue moon. (Just last year a full moon met the criteria for both ...

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