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Month: July 2012

Alaska’s 2012 oil tax debate – a backgrounder

Alaska’s 2012 oil tax debate – a backgrounder

It has been two and a half months since the Legislature adjourned its special session on oil taxes. Lawmakers have long since returned home to ponder the failure of the session, and to busy themselves, in most cases, on re-election campaigns. There was a lot of work done on oil taxes in the 2012 session and despite the failure, in the end there was some progress on this divisive and controversial topic. Here’s the problem: As is well known, oil…

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