THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Venezuela Steps Up Tax Actions on Oil Firms
“Venezuelan tax authority Seniat ordered oil company Royal Dutch/Shell Group to pay nearly $131 million in back taxes it said the company owed.”:
Friday 15 July 2005
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July 15, 2005; Page A8
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan tax authority Seniat ordered oil company Royal Dutch/Shell Group to pay nearly $131 million in back taxes it said the company owed.
Seniat also seized a number of documents from the offices of U.S. oil company Chevron Corp., saying the company had failed to produce the information on request.
Chevron and Shell officials weren’t immediately available for comment.
Tax chief Jose Vielma Mora said last week that he would fine and temporarily close the administrative offices of several oil firms for failing to follow tax laws. He said the tax agency’s move wouldn’t disrupt oil production.
Critics of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s “zero evasion” tax campaign argue the government is using scare tactics to coerce foreign oil companies into accepting new oil agreements. The Chávez government has argued that various foreign oil companies have been violating oil contracts for years and failed to pay taxes as well.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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