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Income tax is imposed on individuals, corporations, estates, and trusts. [6] The definition of net taxable income for most sub-federal jurisdictions mostly follows the federal definition. [7] The rate of tax at the federal level is graduated; that is, the tax rates on higher amounts of income are higher than on lower amounts.
Gross national income per capita similarly peaked in 2010, and has decreased since. [134]: 3 As of 2016, 45.8% of East Timorese were impoverished, 16.3% severely so. [134]: 6 The fertility rate, which at the time of independence was the highest in the world at 7.8, [135] dropped to 4.2 by 2016.
The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, an independent state, and Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. They share an open border and both are part of the Common Travel Area and as a consequence, there is free movement of people, goods, services and capital across the border.
Catholics accounted for 10.3% in the 2020 ARDA census, [221] and 16% in the 2023 PRRI survey, which divided them into 9% White Catholic, 6% Hispanic Catholic, and 1% other. [218] Catholic churches are organized in either the Diocese of Arlington or Richmond , while Episcopal churches are similarly in their Diocese of Virginia , Southern ...
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. [1]
The Han dynasty [a] was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and a warring interregnum known as the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC), and it was succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD).
A table of ranks in early modern Scottish society Below the king were a small number of dukes (usually descended from very close relatives of the king) and earls , who formed the senior nobility. Under them were the barons, who in this period were beginning to merge with the local tenants-in-chief to become lairds [ 102 ] a group roughly ...