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UK offers world's most generous tax breaks to shale gas industry

Ana Komnenic | July 19, 2013 | 4:59 am Europe 

The UK government is looking to boost the country's shale gas industry by offering the world's "most generous" tax regime to shale companies, the BBC reports. George Osborne, the U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, is behind the proposal and suggests...

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