I think that taxpayers do very much rely on both draft legislation and comfort letters. Most of the changes that we're talking about here are very technical in nature. They don't seem to typically deal with policy. We've lived with the system. Some of the amendments in this bill go back to as far as 1996, and taxpayers, while they regret having to follow so many versions of draft legislation, do try to do that. But it would be a lot simpler if the technical amendments could be passed, let's say, on a regular basis—yearly, once every two years at most.
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