What we're talking about is focusing on settling items rather than just reassessing them. Under the legislation and supported by the tax courts, the auditors don't have the authority to actually settle items with taxpayers based on a range of potential outcomes. It has to be a principle-based system. What we want is a situation where an auditor and a taxpayer could agree on a certain settlement that would prevent a non-significant issue from going to appeals, to the tax courts, using both government and taxpayer resources.
On October 18th, 2012. See this statement in context.