1.   Although all taxpayers are permitted to take the standard deduction, depending on your circumstances you may wind up paying less if you itemize your deductions instead.

2.   Busy with national elections of their own Monday, Canadians paid less attention than usual to the US race.

3.   For example, under their plan, the states could decide to pay less for certain prescription drugs than is now mandated in more generous federal guidelines.

4.   If beneficiaries paid less, then the federal government would have to pay more or hospitals would have to accept less over all.

5.   If the cash received on the surrender of a policy exceeds the premiums paid less dividends received, the excess is taxed as ordinary income.

6.   Teachers pay them less attention in school, fashion magazines feed them unrealistic role models.

7.   The Clinton administration says that closing some tax breaks may force companies to raise prices and lose customers, and therefore pay less taxes.

8.   Until then, the tax-managed fund helps them pay less year to year.

9.   Those without insurance may pay less if the drug companies lower prices to meet competition.

10.   Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam where women are paid less prize money than women.