Chevron gets kicked out of Chad

Non-payment of taxes, apparently.

The Oil companies over here just are not used to paying taxes. They don't believe in it and the little emperor won't make them.

MySA.com:

"N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) -- The president suspended the oil minister and two other Cabinet members who negotiated deals with two foreign oil firms that he ordered out of the central African country over a tax dispute, officials said Sunday.

President Idriss Deby suspended the three ministers on Saturday after ordering the two foreign firms - Chevron Corp. and Petronas - out of Chad for failing to pay taxes, government officials said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

Deby has accused the companies of failing to pay $450 million in taxes and said the two firms - which are part of an oil production consortium led by Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil - should immediately begin making plans to leave.
It was unclear how Chad might carry out the expulsion order, which Deby announced in a message broadcast on state-run radio Saturday. Chevron and Petronas have a skeleton staff of only three in the African country.