Russia vows to end oil export tax

Journal Article · Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · Oil and Gas Journal; (United States)

OSTI ID:7045220

This paper reports that Russia will eliminate its oil export tax by 1994 and until then will allow some exemptions, Russian officials have assured a group of US tax specialists. They stopped short of saying it would be repealed by the end of the year, the Ken Crawford, a member of a Tax Foundation delegation visiting Russia and managing partner of KPMG Peat Marwick's Moscow office. The export tax was one of several tax related Russian economic issues on which the US experts and Russian officials exchanged views early this month. The 15 member delegation was in Moscow on invitation from Russia's Ministry of Finance and State Committee on Taxation to help develop guidelines for laws governing Russia's taxation of foreign investment. The US group was sponsored by the Tax Foundation, Washington, DC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan tax and fiscal policy research and public education group.

• OSTI ID: 7045220
• Journal Information: Oil and Gas Journal; (United States), Vol. 90:30; ISSN 0030-1388
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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