By Mark Odell
Published: November 25 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 25 2006 02:00: Venezuelan tax authorities have hit Royal Dutch Shell with a $17.7m (£9.3m) tax bill.
The claim is thought to cover 2005 after the company settled a $13m tax bill for the 2001 to 2004 period earlier this year but Shell was unable to confirm the exact nature of the latest charge.
“The tax department is currently studying the claim but it is to early to comment,” Shell said last night.
The tax bill comesagainst a backdrop of increasing pressure on international oil companies by the left-wing nationalist government of president Hugo Chávez.
Earlier this year, Venezuela forced international oil companies into giving the state majority stakes in 32 existing operating licences that were pumping 500,000 barrels of oil per day, including Shell’s only producing field – Urdaneta Oeste in Lake Maracaibo,in the west of thecountry.
The Anglo-Dutch company also has a lubricants plant in Valencia, central Venezuela. Mark Odell
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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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