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.
The Auckland volcanic field has erupted this type of hot, runny iron-rich lava, and the landscape is dotted with mountains made from basalt and scoria (a red-coloured rock that contains large amounts of iron-rich minerals). Both rock types are excavated for building materials and landscaping.asalt is associated with great rock columns that are found in many places around the Earth, for example, the Organ Pipes in Dunedin or the Giantâs Causeway in Ireland. Basalt magma is formed at high temperatures (around 1,200ÂºC). When it comes out of the volcano, it is hot and liquid.