The standard deduction is $8,700 for the 2012 tax year if you file as the head of a household. Filers using the single or married filing separately statuses have a standard deduction of $5,950. If you use your standard deduction, the head of household status lets you avoid taxes on an extra $2,750 of your income.
Nothing but grey. The mountain ranges that form the backbone of New Zealand are made of ancient greywacke, which is being rapidly uplifted and eroded. Boulders in many of the rivers are made almost entirely of this rock. If you identify a grey rock as greywacke, there is a good chance you will be correct. hard rain. New Zealandâs heavy annual rainfall has helped shape the mountains. More than 10,000 millimetres fall on the western side of the Southern Alps, south of Hokitika. Much of the alps, Fiordland and the north-west ranges receive over 3,200 millimetres.
Some of the most dramatic mountains in the world are fold mountains. These are created when two of the Earthâs tectonic plates crash together â like in a head-on car crash. The edges of the two plates buckle and fold, and the peaks of these folds are mountains.Entire mountain ranges, thousands of kilometers long, are created during these slow motion collisions between tectonic plates.Mount Everest from Kalapatthar. Photo: Pavel Novak.he edges of the two plates buckle and fold, and the peaks of these folds are mountains. Entire mountain ranges, thousands of kilometers long, are created during these slow motion collisions between tectonic plates. Mount Everest from Kalapatthar. Photo: Pavel Novak.