Shell has sued the state and require the repayment of nok 575 million in taxes on diesel. On Tuesday, they meet in Oslo district court.
Shell believes the state had not had the right to require the CO2 and veibruksavgift from 1. september 2011 to 31. December 2012.
It is a diesel that has implicated synthetic GTL fuel, which stands for gas-to-liquid. According to Teknisk Ukeblad provided a stortingsflertall for taxes on GTL from 1. January 2013. Shell has brought the case before the court because the company believes it should not have been imposed environmental charges in nearly a year and a half before this.
Shell considers GTL to be an alternative synthetic fuel that was not covered by the avgiftsplikten before such vat was introduced from 1. January 2013 through a forskriftsendring, ” says communications director Jan Soppeland in Norske Shell.
In the right will Shell among other things, lead geophysicist Jan Ashes Børresen as a witness. He is, according to Teknisk Ukeblad critical to the state’s way to avgiftslegge GTL fuel. The state has, on their side, summoned the NTNU professor Edd Anders Blekkan, who has been critical of the environmental impact of GTL in a perspective.
his Trial in Oslo tingrett starting Tuesday, and it is set by the three days of the treatment.
(©NTB)
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