
Venezuelan legislators have begun drafting a new law that would tax foreign oil companies' windfall profits from rising crude prices, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Iroshima Bravo told Dow Jones Newswires that "the tax will be anywhere between 20 and 25 percent of what we deem sudden gains'' from fluctuations in world oil prices. (full information)/El gobierno y la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela evalúan el establecimiento de un impuesto petrolero por "ganancia súbita" con una tasa entre 20% y 25%, afirmó el miércoles una congresista ( información completa)/





