Now a windfall tax, it seems to me, would not be inappropriate in this context.
And yesterday, two senators said they wanted a windfall tax on the profits of big oil companies.
There are no current plans to introduce a windfall tax on oil companies.
The new government is expected to introduce a windfall tax on mining profits.
Labour has bold plans to create work for the long-term jobless, paid for by a windfall tax on the privatised utilities.
The talk may be about a windfall tax on oil companies, but the action will be on boosting subsidies for alternative fuels.
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The Treasury is likely also to investigate slapping a windfall tax on oil producers next year just as Sir Geoffrey Howe did in the early 1980s.
In the shorter term the political provocation of the bonus payouts is likely to increase demand for a windfall tax on bonuses or salary caps.
While some taxpayers may not want to adjust their withholding because they like the enforced savings that comes with a windfall tax return, others may want to, says Mr. Sabates.
Mr Obama posed as a protectionist during the Democratic primaries (though he has since toned down his rhetoric), and he backs populist notions such as a windfall tax on oil firms.
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Nevertheless, her campaign has echoed Mr Humala's pledges to levy a windfall tax on mining companies and give Andean Indian communities veto rights over mining and oil projects on their land.
There was a case for putting right some of the wrong done in the privatisations of the 1990s that created the oligarchs, for instance by imposing a windfall tax on them and their companies.
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Organisers of the campaign for a windfall tax say they have secured a resolution on the issue to be debated at the TUC conference next week, which they claim is almost certain to be passed.
Meanwhile, a Labour backbencher, Fabian Hamilton, who has called for a windfall tax on energy companies, says the Government risks losing support if it fails to provide a one-off payment to help ease people's energy woes.
Economic hardship and tightening spending constraints have brought the resulting tensions into the open: witness the recent row over whether the government should impose a windfall tax on energy companies and use the money to help poor families meet their rising fuel bills (it didn't).
It is a hard question to answer in Britain, where the new Labour government is poised to levy a windfall tax on privatised utilities, where the electricity regulator will impose a tighter cap on electricity distribution charges in 2000, and where competition in the supply of electricity to domestic consumers is due to start next year.
Barack Obama, supports the repeal of oil company tax breaks and a windfall profits tax.
Obama said a windfall profits tax would ease the burden of energy costs on working families.
Something more punitive is likely as well, for instance a windfall profits tax on oil, and maybe other industries.
In Africa, the government of Namibia is mulling over a mining windfall tax.
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He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.
McCain argues that a windfall profits tax will only increase the country's dependence on foreign oil and be an obstacle to domestic exploration.
Obama's plan for relief includes putting a windfall profits tax on oil companies, using the proceeds to help Pennsylvania families pay their heating and cooling bills.
More importantly, it will forestall the massive profit taking in the fourth quarter of this year which promises a windfall of tax revenues for the government.
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More importantly, it will forestall the massive profit taking in the fourth quarter of this year which promised a windfall of tax revenues for the government.
The government will find it easier to plump for Ms Barker's less controversial recommendations, such as a windfall profits tax on land developers, encouraging greater competition among housebuilders and dealing with the skills shortage in construction.
Thanks to a booming economy, America's leaders have a tax windfall to spend on the country's problems.
In an expansionary budget containing goodies for almost every industry, the government has imposed a windfall-profits tax on producers of palm oil.
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Unless their sponsors are very careful, firms can easily turn these laws into a tax windfall simply by employing someone they would have hired anyway.
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