Oil Companies, Pipeline Owners, Developers Suing Alaska Over Property Taxes Paid Under Protest

Claim overvaluation, overcharging

Big Oil companies, Trans Alaska Pipeline owners, developers and leaseholders demand refunds of more than $50 million in property taxes they paid to Alaska under protest.

BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Koch Alaska Pipeline Co. and other oil and pipeline companies sued the cities of Anchorage, Valdez, Fairbanks, North Slope and the state, in three state courts.