Democrats and Republicans alike have expressed strong support for a tax rebate, for example.
In terms of a short-term stimulus package, you disagree with them on an immediate tax rebate.
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An example is the earned income credit, which is a tax rebate for lower-income workers.
There is no special tax rebate for these cars: we buy them because we want to.
Barring that, families could apply the tax rebate to health insurance they purchase on their own.
Among the issues that might trip up leaders negotiating a package is the question of who gets a tax rebate.
On the flip side, the Minnesota Revenue Department sent 3, 500 tax rebate checks to taxpayers ineligible to receive them.
In April it raised the consumption tax from 3% to 5%, rescinded an income-tax rebate and increased health-care contributions.
Locals would get a council-tax rebate in return for helping to run services.
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There are also plans to abolish the 25% tax rebate for cinema professionals.
Partly as a result, Congress is contemplating only modest actions such as a tax rebate, more food stamps, perhaps some infrastructure spending.
He was already due to meet Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, on September 20th to demand a long-term tax rebate.
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Looking ahead, the optimists point to further interest-rate cuts (perhaps another half point during the next few months) and a tax rebate.
Mr Zapatero will probably scrap his income-tax rebate, or most of it.
New Jersey allows until November 7th for its property tax rebate programs.
By luck more than design, the income-tax rebate was well timed (Mr Bush had promised to cut taxes long before the recession hit).
The Beige Book described consumer spending as sluggish or slowing in nearly all districts, although tax rebate checks boosted sales for some items.
America's emergency tax rebate, voted this year to help people cope with the credit crunch, has in effect been taken right away again.
The cuts include a tax rebate for employers who hire recent combat veterans in a measure sought by the Republicans and the Independent Democratic Conference.
Meanwhile, in the UK, some 300 lorry drivers demanding a fuel tax rebate blocked a major route into the capital during the morning rush hour in protest.
To prevent that from happening, Beijing this week unveiled measures to help industry, such as a new value-added tax rebate, but the program will undoubtedly prove ineffective.
The speculation is that Mr Bush will push for tax breaks for businesses and a tax rebate for individuals, but will not insist on extending his tax cuts.
At a Brookings Institution forum on January 10th, Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor and leading Republican economist, argued for an income tax rebate and opposed extending unemployment insurance.
Thus, the new policy aims to curb production of low-tech goods (like cheap plastic trinkets) by reducing the tax rebate for exporters more than 50% in many cases.
Planning and administering a big rise in spending, and organising political support for it, are likely to take far longer than is required to arrange a tax rebate.
So if the government enacts a once-off tax rebate, theory would lead one to expect that people would spread increased consumption over time, rather than go out and binge.
Top Democrats in Congress are also keen on a tax rebate, but they want to make sure it helps poorer consumers, perhaps by making it refundable for those who do not pay income tax.
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