The states, in turn, must simplify their sales-tax codes and give retailers free software to calculate the taxes — steps already taken by most states.
"When the government steps in with the heavy hand of regulation, steps in with greater and greater taxes, steps in by destroying the marketplace, that extinguishes dreams," he said.
The US justice department filed a lawsuit last month to force UBS to reveal the identities of 52,000 US customers who allegedly evaded taxes, stepping up the pressure on the Swiss bank.
Yet, among the first things that Mr. Boehner has said he will seek to accomplish are reversing cuts to the Medicare program and extending the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, steps that are hard to reconcile with a commitment to reining in the national debt.
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It was only yesterday, when she threatened to resign, that Miroslav Mikulčík, head of the tax authorities, stepped down.
He also said he did not favor increasing the federal gasoline tax, a step that economists say would encourage people to use less gasoline.
Ultimately, the Frederick Richmond Foundation, headed by a congressman who was later indicted on a variety of charges, including tax evasion, stepped in.
Republicans do seem willing to drop their insistence on eliminating the corporate minimum tax, a step that would have awarded huge tax breaks to the nation's biggest businesses.
President Clinton today vetoed a Republican-sponsored bill to repeal the federal estate tax and stepped up the election-year sparring over tax cuts and how best to spend the budget surplus.
