Dear Diane and Charles:

We are writing to express the continued support of the nation's Governors for the Uniform Sales and Use Tax Administration Act and Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement as adopted by the participating states. These two products demonstrate significant progress towards achieving a more simple, uniform, and fair system of state sales and use taxation. The unanimous vote of the participating states is testimony to your constructive efforts to bring our sales and use tax systems into the 21^st century and towards achieving critical savings and efficiencies in the new economy. While we recognize that there will be opposition to streamlining, we urge the project states to press ahead given the huge potential benefits to the national economy of developing an efficient tax simplification system for the 21^st century. We look forward to positive and constructive actions by the states, and remain committed to support such efforts.

We commend you for the openness and responsiveness of the project to comments from the business sector. It is clear to us that enacting a streamlined system in our states will require not just the strong support of the business community, but also their continued input to create a system that works far more efficiently and fairly than the one we currently have.

We appreciate your efforts and leadership on this critical project.

Sincerely,