Staff writer
The tax panel of the Liberal Democratic Party is in a bit of a bind.
The panel, which has recently begun to work on an annual tax revision package for fiscal 2000, is tasked with carrying out a fine balancing act between two opposing priorities: preparing tax breaks sufficient to stimulate the still-fragile economy and putting the brakes on the surging fiscal deficit.
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