As the legislature begins the last week of its extended session, the tax reform bill will face its toughest challenger: the PRD. This afternoon, the final report from the finance commission of the lower house should be ready, after their study that began last Thursday. The soon-to-be-opposition PRD party, however, did not even respond to the invitation extended by Marino Collante, the commission?s chairman. The PRD is contending that the proposals should be heard next week, after the new authorities are sworn in, and that any tax reform initiative should be accompanied by compensations to soften the blow, especially a universal increase in the minimum wage. Complete compliance is similarly not expected from the PRSC party, which maintains that the fiscal package should not be approved until the pubic knows what the economic policies of the Fernandez administration will be. This situation will leave the legislation in the hands of the 42 PLD deputies of the total 150 deputies in the lower house, and a battle yet to be fought in the Senate.