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Tim Law: Why Tax Is the Most Powerful Word in Mining
Why Tax Is the Most Powerful Word in Mining
Tim Law is a chartered accountant and tax expert who spent nearly two decades in corporate tax teams, twelve of them inside a major mining company. What makes him worth hearing is where that path led - from tax returns to the murkier questions of who owns, controls and benefits from the world's mineral wealth.
His argument starts somewhere unexpected: tax, he says, is the least boring subject in mining, because it is where the balance between risk and reward is settled between companies and the countries they operate in. From there the conversation…
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