Alaska Governor Wants to Tax Unproduced North Slope NatGas

摘要

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker plans to introduce legislation that would include a tax on North Slope natural gas reserves that lie fallow. It is intended to spur pro- ducers to commercialize the reserves, but the move has antagonized Republican state lawmakers. Walker said his forthcoming bill — focused on the Alaska LNG project — would reinstate a reserves tax on North Slope resources in the ground that are not developed. In 1975, Gov. Bill Egan signed a similar piece of legislation allowing the state to collect oil revenue prior to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline being built.