Cover story: Opportunity missed for US reform

November 01, 2006

Taxpayers, advisers and regulators agree the US Internal Revenue Code is too complex. The tax reform panel emphasized the point when it released its report a year ago on November 1 2005. But nothing has happened since then to simplify the rules. International Tax Review investigates why

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