Private oil and mining firms in Colombia have been registered as public entities with the country’s tax office since 2005, according to newspaper El Tiempo.

The extraordinary interpretation of tax law cost the Colombian tax payer a staggering $4.4 billion (13 trillion pesos), the newspaper reported.

The state council was forced to interfere and banned the extraordinary tax norm for oil and mining companies.

The companies will not longer be able to deduct royalties from their corporate tax as if they were government offices.

For undisclosed reasons this had become custom in the sector after a tax norm was “misinterpreted” in 2005. The State Council, however, said this had been illegal.

Oil and mining companies had reportedly been seeking to deduct royalties since 1998, but were turned down by the DIAN.

Business association ANDI, at the time led by Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas, asked this decision to be revised in 2004, which was granted by the tax office the year later.

The State Council reportedly had been investigating the legal interpretation’s validity since 2012, according to El Tiempo.

The ANDI’s Mining Chamber, which had requested the reinterpretation of the law, would not respond to the newspaper’s requests for comment.

Whether criminal charges will follow the State Council decision is unclear.
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The former German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler survived the Second World War and resided in Colombia for several months in 1954, according to a recently declassified CIA document.

The declassified intelligence memorandum from the United States, published as part of a series of files on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, had an accompanying photograph showing "Adolf Schrittelmayor" in Tunja, Boyacá province, in the South American country.
On September 28, 1955, the friend of Cimelody-3 obtained the photo quoted, and the next day he showed it to Cimelody-3," according to the report. In the heading it reads "Adolf Schrittelmayor, Tunga, Colombia, South America, 1954", reason why it is deduced that its last name would have changed.
Next to him there is a man who should be Citroen. For years, the Soviets said they had the remains of Hitler, although the bodies of the German dictator and Eva Braun were not officially cremated.
But many, in the United States, had doubts. The American scientist Nick Bellantoni, from the University of Connecticut, for example, studied in 2009 the fragment of a skull in the possession of Russia and said it probably belonged to a woman between 20 and 40 years but not Adolf Hitler.

ANSA Agency.
_{Taken from: October 30, 2017 colombiareports.com/declassified-cia-document-claims-hitler-colombia-world-war-ii/}