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He and Gwin suggest tax holidays and clean energy exemption from industrial policies that discourage investment.
In the meantime, you can see a complete list of back to school sales tax holidays here.
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Dublin aggressively courted foreign investment, using tax cuts and tax holidays as bait.
Instead, each party uses gamesmanship to expand the deficit through extensions of politically popular but fiscally irresponsible payroll tax holidays.
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Pyongyang has also pledged to cut taxes, grant generous tax holidays and provide plenty of low-wage but highly disciplined workers.
But it does highlight an interesting question: just how much are tax holidays worth to retailers, consumers and local governments?
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There are also proposals for a permanent research and development tax credit, temporary expensing of business investment, and payroll tax holidays.
For example, China provides tax holidays or rulings reducing the effective tax rate on certain corporate income to 15% or 20%.
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There are nearly twenty states that have implemented sales tax holidays in conjunction with the annual back-to-school promotions in early fall.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who inaugurated 11 of TeleTech's current 12 call center sites and granted it several tax holidays, is leaving office next year.
North Dakota and Illinois affirmatively voted to drop sales tax holidays while efforts to push a sales tax holiday through in states like Georgia, Indiana, Kansas and Rhode Island seem to have floundered.
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Around 40 were set up, offering tax breaks, rates holidays and other incentives to companies locating within the zones.
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After all of the drama, Congress managed to push through a payroll tax cut extension just before the holidays.
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But the Labour government suggested that such a frequent flyer tax would hit ordinary families looking to take their summer holidays overseas.
However the effect is created immediately when the overall employment rate rises to 9.8%, and that is surely not a good measure for a period that includes the holidays and a congressional debate over whether or not tax cuts should be kept in place for everyone.
Just before they headed home for the winter holidays, Republicans went into duck and cover mode and Congress voted to extend the payroll tax break for two months without paying for the extension, of course.
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