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LONDON (MarketWatch) — A Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) Siberian joint-venture is seeking a settlement in court after disputing the conclusions of a recent tax inspection, a spokeswoman for the Anglo-Dutch giant said Saturday.
The dispute is the latest woe for Shell in Russia after authorities threatened to cancel a key environmental permit for another Shell joint-venture, Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. Ltd.
The spokeswoman, Alexandra Wright, said a branch of Salym Petroleum Development, or SPD, which is half owned by Shell and the other by Sibir Energy PLC (SBE.LN), “has recently undergone a routine tax inspection covering the year 2004.”
Disagreeing with the tax authorities’ conclusions, “SPD decided to refer this matter to court,” she said, in an e-mail statement. The spokeswoman didn’t say what amount was at stake.
She explained that “the issues which emerge from time to time and which cannot be settled with the authorities of the Russia’s Federal Tax Service within the framework of mutual consultations, are referred to courts.”
“SPD would like to state that the company has always pursued, and continues to pursue, the policy of strict compliance with the Russian tax laws,” she added.
SPD, which continues to operate normally, was producing 36,000 barrels a day in April and is targetting 60,000 b/d at the end of the year.
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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.
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