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.
Time your capital gains. Under the AMT, a portion of your income may be exempt from tax. For the 2013 tax year, the exemption amounts will be $80,800 for married joint filers and $51,900 for unmarried individuals, but the exemption is subject to phase-out based on income. If you have certain private activity bonds that are not exempt from the AMT, they pay a slightly higher rate of interest to compensate for the lack of exemption. 2  Therefore, if you are subject to the AMT, you'll have to include interest from these bonds as part of your taxable income.