The
windfall profits tax was very unfortunate because it suddenly made Mongolia one of the toughest tax regimes for mining," Oyun said.
The organisation commissioned Point Carbon Advisory Services, experts on the carbon market, to assess potential
windfall profits in the power sectors of the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland.
While carbon trading has a crucial part to play in tackling climate change, these
windfall profits will give it a bad name unless they are used to fund socially useful and green spending.
Algeria has become the latest African country to consider slapping
windfall profit taxes on foreign oil companies.
The JSDA will accept brokerages' offers to return such
windfall profits or contribute donations designed to help develop the backup computer system in the period between Feb.
The major oil companies are reaping huge
windfall profits while consumers across the nation are facing the highest gasoline prices in recent memory," said CFA director of research Mark Cooper.
If your competitor is getting those
windfall profits, he can use them against you," observes Prof.
There might also be a
windfall profits tax on more fortunate institutions.
A US "crusade against evildoers" would mean
windfall profits for Halliburton, which also supplies security to 150 US embassies and provides "everything from catering to laundry" to the US Army on overseas missions.
They have very high oil prices at the moment, and they are making
windfall profits.
We define a corporation's ability to pay as
windfall profits, which because it explicitly adjusts for differences in the risk associated with corporate investment, is a better measure of economic income than financial statement measures prevalent in prior research.
Yet he seems to have been less interested in
windfall profits than in national policy; he saw the new outposts as an issue of national expansion and empire, "another public trust" (326).
