Global oil price plunge shakes up the way governments do taxes

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Global oil price plunge shakes up the way governments do taxes

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If political instability, leadership changes, and tightened tax laws weren't strenuous enough, plummeting oil prices in the latter half of 2014 left many governments and corporations exasperated, questioning how low prices could conceivably go. Meredith McBride analyses how authorities around the world have responded with sectoral tax changes.

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