Lowtax Network | January 2007
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> Leading headlines from tax-news.com this morning:

Tax Revenues Drive Down US Federal Deficit, by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington 18/01/2007
  The United States Treasury has said that the fiscal outlook significantly improved in the year-to-date to December, as record tax revenues boosted the monthly surplus by more than 300%. [ FULL STORY ]
Hong Kong's Mainland Action Plan Unveiled, by Mary Swire, for LawAndTax-News.com, Hong Kong 18/01/2007
On Monday this week, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, presented an action plan compiled by expert groups he appointed after the publication of China's 11th Five-Year Plan last September. [ FULL STORY ]
The Americas Lead World In Economic Freedom, by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington 18/01/2007
The Western Hemisphere, led by the United States, boasts a higher than average degree of economic freedom than the rest of the world, although the Americas' historic march toward greater freedom largely stalled last year, according to the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom. [ FULL STORY ]
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