RE:RE:RE: Simple explanation of the SUPER TAXI know this is for Top Advisor, but windfall taxes like this usually apply to anything over a fixed value. Let's say the FS comes up with a base case scenario of $3 copper. Up to $3.75 profits are taxed at 35%. Any amount over $3.75 would then be taxed at 50%. So, at $4 copper, only $0.25 gets taxed at 50%. Otherwise, you would be far more profitable at $3.75 than $4 copper. I don't think that is the intention. It would act as a reverse incentive. Investment would dry up for everything except perhaps cobalt.
IVN has seen this movie before, and a lot worse. The 68% tax on all copper over $1.18 lb, and gold $500 ounce in Mongolia back in 2006 was far worse than what we are looking at here. Compare that with 50% on $3.75 copper and $1.40 zinc. And the response at that time was comparatively mild with IVN only dropping by 21%. The Mongolian tax was eventually overturned in the courts three years later.
I'm more worried about the broader market. What if all those "investors" who have piled into SPY and other index funds over the years, panic and run over a cliff just like IVN shareholders did this week, with a not so gentle shove from market operators? We could be looking at a global rout. That would stall out the global recovery just as it's finally gaining real traction. And it would have a direct impact on commodities prices. That's far more important than changes in the mining law which would only alter financial analysis by less than 10%.
KAT was up marginally again today. I guess the 10% strategic metals tax has them popping champagne corks. They can drink champagne, but for this week, it's a beer pocket for me.