• A windfall tax is a higher tax rate on profits that ensue from a sudden windfall gain to a particular company or industry. There have been windfall taxes...
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  • Windfall taxes have been applied on several occasions since 1997 by United Kingdom governments, in response to company profits that were considered to...
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    controversy after giving a speech to a group of businessmen that a £10 billion windfall tax on North Sea oil revenue in the 2011 budget was his idea. The move has...
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  • The Windfall tax or windfall profits tax in Mongolia was a taxation on the profits made by mining companies operating in Mongolia. It was implemented in...
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  • event which provides some with an extraordinary ability to earn windfall gains. Windfall taxes have often been proposed, and sometimes imposed, in order to...
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    types of taxes: corporate tax, individual income tax, and sales tax, including VAT and GST and capital gains tax, but does not list wealth tax or inheritance...
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  • A windfall gain is an unusually high or abundant income, that is sudden and/or unexpected. Examples of windfall gains include, but are not limited to:...
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  • passed by 2020. The complicated nature of the windfall tax might cause companies to use intricate forms of tax avoidance. In January 2022, Finance Minister...
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    the decision by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas firms to fund economic support for the public during the...
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    removed temporarily. To fund the scheme, the Labour Party had proposed a windfall tax on excess profits of energy companies; however, Truss rejected these...
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