But Huckabee said investment in infrastructure instead of tax rebates would best stimulate the nation's economy.
Our calculations show that consumers saved 80% of the tax rebates they received in the summer of 2008.
His conservative platform of tax rebates, school choice and opposition to abortion has played well with most Mississippi voters.
Two-thirds of the boost will come from tax rebates, which 130m American families are due to receive starting in May.
President Bush's main message: Congress needs to move fast on the collection of tax rebates, business incentives and mortgage lending reforms.
Other promotions included window-display contests for tour agencies abroad and tax rebates for those local agencies that purchased vehicles for tourism purposes.
The Bush administration and Congress are hoping the economy gets an edge starting today when the Treasury Department starts sending out tax rebates.
Such a measure presumably would involve tax rebates, business tax cuts and funding for a Democratic-led call for additional food stamp and employment aid.
Democrats also tried to strip the IRS of money being used to mail taxpayers notifications of their tax rebates, but that amendment also failed.
Del Toro wanted to shoot in Canada, which offered tax rebates.
Spending will be supported by tax rebates in the second half of the year, but the hangover from the housing bust will linger much longer.
The decision to slash tax rebates on exports also alleviates some of the U.S. pressure on China to let the yuan appreciate relative to the dollar.
Mr Thornton added that "there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that exporters are faking orders and 'round-tripping' in order to gain government export tax rebates".
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Tax rebates are one way governments might be able to break the cycle that leaves us with too many jobs having too poor design for work-life balance.
Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives have reached a deal to invigorate the U.S. economy with a combination of tax rebates and business tax cuts.
The prospects for a second stimulus package (on top of the tax rebates sent out earlier this year) will rise, as a result of the jobs data.
Households were provided with tax rebates and bonuses to spend.
His prescription to stimulate the economy: tax rebates and more.
Since then, China's technocrats have, among other things, provided tax rebates, handed out incentives for home purchases and cut interest rates--three times in six weeks in fact.
Moreover, there appears to be another stratagem that exporters extensively used in December, the round-tripping of goods through special trade areas and bonded warehouses to earn substantial value-added-tax rebates.
Without fanfare (or media coverage) in the West, Beijing earlier this month dramatically cut the tax rebates that exporters get on more than 2, 200 products, including soap, plastics and glassware.
If consumers relied heavily on tax rebates to keep their spending going in the second quarter, there will be less cash left over to shell out in the coming months.
Greens in the Senate had included tax rebates and cheap loans for farmers who reforested degraded areas faster than the law required, or who preserved more land than the bare minimum.
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In many parts of the country, regulators have relied on various tax rebates and credits to make it possible for power companies to invest in low-yielding technologies without destroying their bottom lines.
And he said he would use expanded tax rebates and competitive grant programs to get consumers to buy electric vehicles and help communities build the infrastructure for the next generation of clean cars.
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However, most of the money in this bill will be given to individuals and corporations in the form of tax rebates or transfer payments and will do nothing to reduce the barriers to commerce.
There's been some criticism that, you know, the income tax rebates won't do much to help those at the very lowest end of the economic scale because they don't pay much in income taxes.
So too should the relaxation in fiscal policy which started with President Bush's tax rebates this summer and which seem set to continue with a substantial stimulus package now working its way through Congress.
Democrats tend to favor some direct cash infusions to low- and middle-income Americans in the form of tax rebates, by extending jobless benefits for those out of work, and by making food stamps more available.
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