Under the plan, companies with assets of at least $10 million that also file broader disclosures with the Securities and Exchange Commission would be required each year to provide the I.R.S. with information about tax transactions that might be challenged by the agency.
Mr. Obama, deploying the full powers of incumbency, announced that the United States would file a broad lawsuit against China at the World Trade Organization, charging that it subsidizes its auto and auto parts industries to the detriment of American manufacturers.
The Obama administration plans to file a broad trade case at the World Trade Organization in Geneva on Monday accusing China of unfairly subsidizing its exports of autos and auto parts, a senior administration official said late Sunday, in a move with clear political implications for the presidential elections less than two months away.
And, if so, has he both the evidence and the stomach to file a broad Sherman act antitrust case against the world's most powerful software company?The answer is that if he has that evidence, he should act on it; indeed, 13 state regulators are also pursuing the Redmond company.
And anecdotal evidence suggests that electronic record keeping, which has increased the paper trail left by scientists, is making it easier for members of the public to file overly broad and burdensome requests, the UCS report finds.
Authorities plan to navigate around a legal deadline for filing some insider trading charges by filing a broad criminal conspiracy case against SAC, these people said.
But in the spring of 1998, the Justice Department and 20 states filed their broad antitrust suit against Microsoft.
It is conceivable, too, that Silber may seek to file additional, broader lawsuits.
The Netscape Communications Corporation, the commercial pioneer in Web browsing software, whose fortunes faded after a withering assault from Microsoft, filed a broad antitrust suit yesterday against the company.
