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CHECKABLE DEPOSITS: Checking account deposits maintained by banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, or mutual savings banks. These accounts, also termed transactions deposits, let customers transfer funds easily and quickly to another person, which makes them ideally suited for use as money. Checkable deposits are typically between 60 and 70 percent of the M1 money supply.
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AD VALOREM TAX A tax specified as a percentage of the price or value of a good, service, asset, or other activity. Ad valorem taxes tend to be broad based, imposed on activities such as income and retail sales. In fact, the two most important ad valorem taxes are income taxes and sales taxes. People pay a percentage of their incomes in income taxes or a percentage or the value of their purchases in sales taxes, regardless of the amount of time spent working or the quantities of goods purchases. An alternative is a per unit tax, with is a tax specified as a percentage of the physical quantity of a good.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area seeking to buy either a decorative windchime with plastic or a flower arrangement for that special day for your mother. Be on the lookout for letters from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them ‚ the character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas. " -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Writer
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