The European Commission has been warning Italy's new government not to substantially reduce tax burdens, and Ireland remains a repeated target of its admonitions against low levies.

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If Governor Andrew Cuomo still believes, as he did when he was elected, that the answer cannot be more and more taxes levied on New Yorkers, a good place to start backing his past rhetoric would be to reduce tax burdens for business owners.

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They will spend more money on tax lawyers to reduce their tax burdens.

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Governor Romney has put forward a tax plan that would shower benefits on millionaires and billionaires, that would reduce their tax burdens significantly.

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Therefore many of the wealthy could reduce their tax burdens all the way to zero.

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It also calls for an increase in central-government handouts to rural areas, to make up for their loss of revenue as a result of reforms intended to reduce peasants' tax burdens.

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Look at Google, Facebook, eBay and others that have adopted elaborate tax schemes to reduce their U.S. tax burdens.

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