By Jon Rees For The Mail On Sunday: 24 JAN 2016
Shell’s bid to acquire BG Group has been given a boost by news from Brazil that a much feared tax hike will be avoided.
Fears of a larger tax bill on oil groups operating in Brazil had caused some investors to oppose the £36billion takeover of BG, which will create a group with major assets in the South American country.
Brazil’s National Energy Policy Council will this week announce that it will continue with the same way of calculating royalties due from oil and gas.
The Brazilian authorities were considering changing the system, which was expected to have increased the minimum tax levied, to increase revenues as the country’s downturn continues.
The worries over a higher tax bill were one of the reasons why leading Shell investor Standard Life refused to back the deal last year.
Shell is understood to be confident that the deal will win enough support from investors, who will vote on it this Wednesday. A simple majority in favour from them is needed to pass the deal.
BG Group investors will vote on Thursday, when a 75 per cent majority is required.
The offer was announced in April last year and saw Shell offer a 50 per cent premium to BG’s share price at the time. The offer was worth 1350p a share, made up of 383p in cash and 0.44 of a Shell share for each BG share.
Both firm’s shares have tumbled since then as the price of oil has fallen from more than $65 (£45.48) a barrel to $31.21 last week.
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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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