The IRS anticipates that all of this foot dragging will delay tax filings for 2013.
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Last week, they forced a rare closed meeting of the Senate to look into foot dragging over investigating pre-war intelligence.
Still, the news of Interpublic's hire was surprising, given all the foot dragging that's surrounded what has been dubbed the "Rainbow DBS" service.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, for Labour, said it was vital the government implemented the "important" reforms without "foot dragging, backsliding or watering them down".
Horror stories abound of long waiting lists, botched installations and deliberate foot-dragging by monopolistic incumbents.
America's patience with France's foot-dragging in the alliance, never great, is now just about exhausted.
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Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
There will a lot of foot-dragging and nothing will happen this side of the election.
American regulators have been more assiduous, though are still open to charges of foot-dragging.
Indeed, a combination of confusion and foot-dragging has made many financial firms slow to carry out necessary changes.
If Jakarta hints at foot-dragging, it will tempt other members to follow suit.
Their foot-dragging and mudslinging over the bipartisan plan for incentive auctions serves nobody but a handful of moneyed interests.
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Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
Another email (written in 2007) admits that the foot-dragging could lead to fines.
ISAF's imminent move southwards, after two years of European foot-dragging, it suggested a fairly solid, international commitment to Afghanistan's rebuilding.
Yet environmentalists point out that Canada is now paying for its own foot-dragging at the federal level on green initiatives.
Mr Walsh's patience with what he saw as foot-dragging by Britain's regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), was at its limit.
In part because of bureaucratic foot-dragging in Brussels and Washington, many Kosovars may still have a cold and uncomfortable few months ahead.
Unfortunately these innovations have not been copied elsewhere, so the foot-dragging continues.
Yet the coming weeks offer plenty of scope for quibbling and foot-dragging.
And once again, PwC's foot-dragging caused Amerco to file its restated annual reports a day late, on July 17, 2002, the suit says.
But the lengthy delays that have characterized negotiations over other Kazak oil and gas deals (usually due to Russian foot-dragging) are unlikely in this case.
Foot- dragging on this would be criminal as well as destructive.
Not surprisingly, because of regulations and the authorities' bureaucratic foot-dragging, the Golden State's utilities haven't built a major new generating plant in more than a decade.
After much foot-dragging, it earlier this year allowed web addresses in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic and plans to do the same with nine other non-roman scripts.
But the Americans have reportedly reacted coldly to this early demonstration of Israeli casuistic recalcitrance, finding it reminiscent of the pretext-finding and foot-dragging of Mr Netanyahu's first administration.
By December, the offshore ban was largely reinstated, so that in February 2011 a federal judge found the Department of Interior in contempt of court for its foot-dragging.
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What some call foot-dragging Mrs Merkel regards as creative obstruction.
Some in the cabinet are critical of Mr Yanagisawa's foot-dragging.
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