Brazil Energy Chief Piles Pressure on Petrobras to Pay Tax Debts

(Bloomberg) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras must settle a dispute involving billions of reais in back taxes with the federal government to show it has a duty to the country and not only to its private investors, according to the nation’s energy minister.

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