Jessica Uhl, CFO
Shell’s Chief financial Officer, Jessica Uhl

In 2018, Shell paid more than $64.1 billion to governments. We paid $10.1 billion in income taxes and $5.8 billion in government royalties, and collected $48.2 billion in excise duties, sales taxes and similar levies on our fuel and other products on behalf of governments.

The 2018 Payments to Governments Report details payments in 34 countries where Shell has upstream operations, including the basis of reporting and a breakdown by country. The report is prepared in accordance with the UK’s Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations 2014 (as amended in December 2015).

This is the fourth report issued by Shell under such Regulations. In fulfilling the requirements set out by the UK we are bound by these regulations, and are reporting on a different basis to the voluntary reports in the past. For example this report excludes payments related to refining, natural gas liquefaction or gas-to-liquids activities as these are not in scope of the UK regulations.

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