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Best Buy often offers student-specific deals on laptops and Chromebooks, usually knocking 10% or more off the price for qualifying shoppers. Previously, you needed to use an academic email address ending in .edu to claim the deals. But to reap the savings now, Best Buy requires only that you identify yourself as a student. To take advantage of this discount, you’ll need to register for a (free) My Best Buy account and sign up for student deals—those discounts will then populate on the Member Offers page of your My Best Buy portal.
The most common way to earn passive income is to invest in dividend-paying stocks. In most cases, the dividends on long-held investments are considered “qualified,” which means they would be subject to a maximum tax rate of 20%. (That compares with the top tax rate of 37% for earned income, which is also subject to FICA tax.)

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After you get the payment, you could either utilize it to pay others for something or hold it until it rises in value. If the value of the coin goes up, you could see a strong profit by selling for U.S. dollars later.

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