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30 July 2012

Advise the Advisor (US)

As has been practiced in many other countries, the US government has just launched a new website to collect feedback from business about priorities for cutting red tape.
"Advise the Advisor" (Cass Sunstein) asks business owners across the country to say which regulations are "standing in (their) way." Which rules should be eliminated, streamlined, or made more effective? How can reporting and paperwork burdens be reduced ? What are the best ways to cut regulatory costs? This consultation is in keeping with the January 2011 Presidential order directing executive agencies to undertake a review of regulations in order to figure out what is working and what is not, and where appropriate, to streamline or eliminate ineffective, overly burdensome, and outdated rules. Over two dozen agencies responded with regulatory reform plans, listing more than 800 initiatives, and the new consultation campaign hopes to usher in another batch of measures.

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