Its report is due to be delivered in November; and an energy tax levied on businesses is a possibility in next year's budget.The Marshall task-force, aided by civil servants from the Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry, and Customs and Excise, is examining two main options.
Land forces, aided by the navy, would advance to Constantinople, and Turkey would surrender.
Syrian forces, aided by Russian airstrikes, move closer toward a siege on Aleppo.
In addition, the task force can aid the Iraqi Army with air support, route clearance vehicles and artillery and mortar fire.
The article also misstated the source of $35 million to $40 million that a NATO official said would finance a task force to aid the effort.
Syria's status as a "cohesive force" is aided by its relative stability.
From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Taft was director of the United Nations Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, and in 2002, she led the United Nations task force for aid in Afghanistan.
There is a backlog of 165,000 pending tax cases, some more than a decade old, representing about half of the total arrears of 60 billion euros ($81 billion), according to a report by the task force charged by the commission with aiding economic recovery in Greece.
In Geneva, the U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, cut short a meeting Thursday of a humanitarian task force chaired by Russia and the United States with the aim of deescalating the violence to allow aid deliveries.
