BBCNEWS Outside Source June 4, 2024 19:50:00
What matters is whether or not they're paying their fair share, and that's something you judge by how much they're being taxed in other countries. and the uk, even with a windfall tax, taxes oil and gas companies like bp at a rate that is below the global average tax rate. now, the uk treasury says the windfall tax is expected to raise £17 billion, or almost $20 billion, this year and next "to help fund cost of living support for 8 million people". but here's the reaction of the shadow climate change secretary. ed miliband says bp's profits are damning evidence of the failure of the tories to...