I think you will find what you wanted orginally in the Blend feature. This allows you to define offsets between sketches.
You can use taper in extrude but it only takes angle references. You would have to calculate the taper angle to get the resulting diameter.
I am assuming you are trying to resolve the 9.58 to 9.0 dimension.
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