...necessary to prevent legislators from avoiding controversial votes.We all knew such votes were coming this session. Oil taxation was the campaign issue in November, and yet the voters in Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula elected these senators...
...Alaskan and is a treasure of commitment to future Alaskans.As we've written before, ACES isn't the last word in oil taxation. Alaska can and should offer incentives to the major producers to increase production, encourage smaller companies...
JUNEAU - Both sides are ratcheting up the rhetoric on oil taxes ahead of this week's expected vote in the Alaska Senate.
...accountability and fairness. This is what Senator Stedman and the Senate Coalition discovered during their hearings on oil taxation. All we need do now is strongly support the Senator's that put Alaska's interest above enhancing the profit margin...
...month.The relative depth and strength of that agreement could inject a new layer of complexity into the politics of oil taxation during the coming six months. The governor can't take anything for granted at this point.
...thereby also increasing the flow of southbound oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), and also because oil taxation is retrospective. That is, oil is taxed after it has been produced, not before. The proposed revisions to ACES considered...
After reading Gail Phillips letter regarding oil taxation ("We need to adopt right tax strategy," April 30), I feel a response is necessary. First off, Juneau never sent Phillips...
...carrying out boxes of documents purportedly related to a leading oil field services company, the recently approved oil taxation overhaul, and the natural gas pipeline contract made a splash across the news pages and on radio and television...
...review its oil tax structure to reap some of the benefits of high oil prices. She said she would like to see a change in oil taxation before considering instituting a statewide income tax. Alaska is losing millions of dollars in windfall profits, she...
...that the state Legislature had to approve the change in oil taxation. VECO supported the negotiations. Allen and Smith...on May 9 without approval of the proposed changes in oil taxation and the governor called a special session. On May 16...
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