Regulators hoping to avoid criticism and potential congressional backlash rushed an environmental review of offshore Arctic oil development to ensure that Royal Dutch Shell would be able to drill this year, saida report issued Mondayby a federal watchdog agency. The investigation, conducted by the U...
It also established a taxation bureau and, in 2019, implemented a regional value-added tax that had already been adopted by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The economic fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic, however, led the deficit to double in the first half of 2020....