1 And in the 1960s the Government gave a tax holiday, which lasted 14 years, to the struggling automobile industry.

2 Would a payroll - tax holiday encourage hiring?

3 The corporations say a tax holiday would help to create jobs, mainly by giving them money to hire and expand.

4 The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.

5 Other proposals range from a payroll - tax holiday to the elimination of all corporate taxes.

6 Short-term actions, like a payroll tax holiday and extending unemployment benefits would help.

7 Indeed, there's no evidence that the 2004 tax holiday did anything at all to stimulate the economy.

8 Said he does not support a federal gas tax holiday and called it a "classic Washington gimmick."

9 Voted for an Illinois gas tax holiday while in the Illinois State Senate.

10 A payroll tax holiday, especially if linked to net job creation , is a powerful employment - boosting measure.

11 In Cambodia, the government extended a tax holiday through 2012 on corporate income tax payments for foreign direct investors.

12 "The payroll tax holiday is the most important new stimulus in there, " said Chuck Marr, the director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

13 And yes, Mr Obama refused to endorse Mrs Clinton's bad plan tax holiday.

14 But it's easy to imagine the arguments that liberals would have discovered against, say, a sweeping payroll tax holiday (it's undercutting Social Security!

15 The Washington Post reported that among the options under review by the Obama team are a temporary payroll tax holiday and a permanent extension of the research and development tax credit.

16 The new law, if passed, would also phase out tax holiday periods, which many companies exploit.

17 As opponents of this plan point out, we've already seen this movie: A similar tax holiday was offered in 2004, with a similar sales pitch.

18 For years, the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, for example, has had a tax holiday for manufacturers.

19 Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat of New York, and other Democratic senators have floated the idea that a tax holiday could be used to establish an infrastructure bank.

20 They are focused on the short-run revenue gain from a tax holiday and playing down the substantial revenue loss over time.