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FMG questions revised MRRT figures
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Colin Jacoby

THE latest Treasury modelling data on the proposed Mineral Resource Rent Tax has done little to quell Fortescue Metals Group’s concerns over how the federal government would raise $A10.5 billion by 2014.


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