diversified When something is diversified, it is diverse, meaning varied. If your investments are diversified, it means you have put money in more than one place: real estate, stocks, bonds, race horses, gold, alligator farms, and so on. Diverse comes from a medieval Latin word diversificare, meaning âmake dissimilar.â If you have diversified something, you have made its parts different from each other. For example, if you want to make your diet more diversified, you make it a point to eat a wider variety of foods, or at least something beyond just scrambled eggs and macaroni and cheese.
Exemptions for spouses. The spouse of a military member may be exempt from paying RTA tax if: 1  The military member is the owner or co-owner of the vehicle. 2  The military member is on active duty. 3  The spouse has a military ID card.
IRS Special Edition Tax Tip 2009-09. Taxpayers who buy new motor vehicles this year may be entitled to a special tax deduction for the sales or excise taxes on those purchases when they file their 2009 federal tax returns next year. This tax benefit is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Taxpayers in states that do not have state sales taxes may be entitled to deduct other fees or taxes imposed by the state or local government. Here are nine important facts the IRS wants you to know about the deduction. 1  State and local sales and excise taxes paid on up to $49,500 of the purchase price of each qualifying vehicle are deductible.