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.
Mountain ranges of greywacke form the backbone of New Zealand, and it is the most abundant rock type in the country. But it is difficult to use as a building stone because the more massive rocks do not split naturally, and in other places it is too fractured.River-worn boulders have been used for building stone walls in some places, and a small number of churches and other buildings have been made of greywacke. Good building stone also needs to be resistant to decay from frost, acid pollution and general weathering. 2  Colour and polish. 3  Pleasing colour and texture is a commercial necessity, and for use in decorative panels a hard dense stone that retains a high polish is required.