I'm not sure why anyone worries about paying the oil cos what they claim they are owed (anyone auditing their spending?) when they owe the state billions after FERC caught them inflating transportation costs which they pay to themselves, then deduct as costs before paying taxes to the state.

Oil cos were caught by the Feds CHEATING on taxes.  God Knows our legislature wouldn't have caught them.  They cannot be trusted and no one should be concerned, much less writing tax policy on behalf of liars and thieves.

The state should be suing oil cos (see Amerada Hess) for the full amount due from audits after they were caught cheating on taxes, and they should sue for the full amount of compound interest that the state is owed.

The previous legislature reduced interest to only 3 years.

When oil cos thought they overpaid $100 Million,they sued Alaska for $100M owed plus $400M interest.

We can avoid income tax and theft of our PFD if we demand our full payments from audits then fix SB21.