That is the point at which gross income begins to exceed the standard deduction and the deduction for the personal exemption.

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You may not have enough itemized deductions to exceed the standard deduction.

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If the total of those deductions exceed the standard deduction for your filing status, you will (in most cases) want to claim itemized deductions instead of claiming the standard deduction.

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The standard amount of cooked pasta served in eateries exceed the USDA standard by 480%, and when it comes to steak, this number is 224%.

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There was one exception: only 21 percent say it is unlikely they will discontinue product candidates that do not exceed the current standard of care.

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For those who wish to carry their music in a portable mp3 player, they have 320kbps files that far exceed the quality of standard MP3 files.

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Neither of their salaries can exceed 80% of the industry standard.

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This year the standard is 12.6 billion gallons of corn ethanol, which the industry expects to exceed, with other renewables to contribute a little more than 2 billion gallons.

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With passive restraints the government wanted to see how various devices worked, but Williamson involves seatbelts and there the government only was interested in setting a minimum standard manufacturers could exceed if they wanted.

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