The word 'exemptions' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to something or someone that is excluded from a rule, requirement, or obligation. Example: "The company offers tax exemptions to small businesses in order to support their growth and development."
It has the authority to offer tax exemptions and loans and can issue tax-exempt bonds.
There are only a handful of exemptions to the ban on abortion – to save the mother's life, if the pregnancy was a result of rape, or, in a recent controversial addition, if the foetus has anencephaly, a rare birth defect in which the brain and skull do not develop.
"We know that abortion carries risks to the life of the woman – illegal abortion as much as legal abortion," she says, adding that the movement would like to see the legal exemptions removed and abortion completely criminalised.
Why are there so many crazy reliefs and exemptions?
He says the exemptions for emergency care will remain.
China's one-child policy already includes a series of exemptions – including for ethnic minorities and couples who are both only children.
The move is expected to affect 660,000 people when it comes into effect next month, although the coalition government this week announced exemptions for approved foster carers and parents with "adult children" serving with the armed forces.
Since 2011, it has been benefitting from exemptions from industrial taxes, worth $118.9m over 10 years, according to the Good Jobs First database.
Yet insurers have expressed concern that such exemptions could make it harder to attract enough new customers into the system to make the economics work and were weakening the principle of the 'individual mandate' requiring everyone to participate in some form of insurance.
Ministers are also likely to face a need to make exemptions for the unintentionally homeless, and for asylum seekers.
Elsewhere, there are a bewildering number of new tax reliefs and exemptions, which will make the UK's impenetrable tax code still more complicated.
