Shell refuses to come. That reinforces the suspicions that it is avoiding tax on a large scale, “says Nijboer. According to him, companies like Shell should respond to a request from the House of Representatives. “Shell is not above the law.”
Printed below is an English translation of an article published today by the Dutch FT, Financieele Dagblad.
Shell refuses to account in the Chamber for tax assessment
Van onze correspondent: 10 April 2019
Shell refuses to appear next week at a hearing from the House of Representatives on the taxation of multinationals. Marjan van Loon, CEO of Shell Netherlands, informed the Standing Committee on Finance that had invited her to know that she had to deal with a representative of the VNO-NCW entrepreneurial organization.
In the Chamber, Henk Nijboer from the Labor Party responded indignantly. “It is unprecedented that Shell refuses to come. That reinforces the suspicions that it is avoiding tax on a large scale, “says Nijboer. According to him, companies like Shell should respond to a request from the House of Representatives. “Shell is not above the law.”
By John Donovan
Last week it emerged that Ben van Beurden received more than €20 million as Royal Dutch Shell boss for 2018. This prompted howls of outrage from the usual sources.
Graham Ruddick: MARCH 18, 2019
Yesterday the Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad published a truly devastating article 
…there remains a high degree of uncertainty regarding the potential outcome of some of these pending lawsuits, as well as their potential effect on future operations, earnings, cash flows and Shell’s financial condition.
Shell is being charged with a major explosion at the Moerdijk plant in 2014. Apart from the explosion, the oil and gas company was also summoned for the leakage of the toxic ethylene oxide from November 2015 to January 2016 in the same industrial area. The Public Prosecutor confirmed that Friday.
Justice invaded the Shell headquarters in The Hague three years ago. Last March, Shell itself filed a report against the Australian former director Peter Robinson, who may have been guilty of corruption in Nigeria. However, that case is about another oilfield.
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