Windfall Profits Tax

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A tax on profits seen as excessive. For example, a windfall profits tax may be imposed on oil companies when their profits rise above a certain amount. The idea behind a windfall profits tax is to encourage the taxed persons or companies to lower their prices, which is thought to be good for consumers. However, it may have the effect of reducing investment because the aftertax profit may not be worth the effort. See also: Windfall shares, Windfall tax.

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Windfall Profit Tax			Lawmaker Sanjaasurengiin Oyun told AFP on the sidelines of the conference that scrapping the windfall profits tax would open doors for Ulan Bator. Investors keen to get a piece of Mongolia by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman) Lawmaker Sanjaasurengiin Oyun told AFP on the sidelines of the conference that scrapping the windfall profits tax would open doors for Ulan Bator. Investors keen to get a piece of Mongolia by AFP / AFP Asian Edition 29 after the miner welcomed the Mongolian Parliament's approval of amendments to four laws, including the insertion of a sunset provision to cancel the three-year-old, 68% windfall profits tax on copper and gold effective January 1, 2011. Uranium junior may be Mongolia's other mining story by Buzz on the Boards / Stockhouse			Wild Card Option Wild Card Play wild deed Wildcat Banking Wildcat Drilling Wildcat Strike will Will Variation William Hewlett William Levitt William M. Allen William McDonough William Peter Hamilton William S. Paley William Sharpe Williams %R Williams Act Willie Sutton Rule willing buyer Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index Wilshire Indexes Wilson-Gorman Act Windfall Windfall Profit Windfall Profit Tax Windfall Profits Tax Windfall Shares Winding Up Winding-Up Order Windmill Window Window contract Window Dressing Window Envelope Window Guaranteed Investment Contract Window Period Window Settlement Window Streamer Window Tax Windstorm Hazard Windstorm Insurance Winner's Curse Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Winter Range Form Wipe Wipeout Wire Fate Item Wire Fraud Wire House Wire Room Wire Side			Windermere Windermere (lake) Windermere (lake) Windermere Information Technology Systems Windermere Lake Windermere Lake Windermere Marina Village Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club Windermere Waterski Association Windermere, Ambleside and District Angling Association Windermere, Lady winders winders Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman Windex windfall windfall windfall windfall Windfall Elimination Provision windfall profit windfall profit windfall profit windfall profit windfall profit Windfall profit tax Windfall profits Windfall profits Windfall profits Windfall profits Windfall Profits Tax windfall profits taxes windfall profits taxes windfall profits taxes Windfall Share Windfall Shares Windfall tax Windfall tax Windfall tax Windfall tax Windfall Tax and Associated Spending windfall taxes windfall taxes windfall taxes Windfall Varieties Windfall, Storm Windfallen windfalls windfalls windfalls windfalls Windfarm Windfarm Windfields Junior High School windflaw windflower windflower windflower windflowers windflowers Windforce

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