Interest, now at 5percentt a year compounded daily, accrues until a taxpayer's full liability has been paid.
If so, why not repeal the recently renewed Price-Anderson Act, which shields the nuclear industry from full liability?
None of them could ever have full ownership of the scoop, and yet if something went wrong with a leak each paper would still be stuck with the full liability.
The utility's full liability for the nuclear accident has not been established and will depend heavily on whether the government characterizes the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 as an exceptional event that could not have been readily anticipated.
However, even if it is successful in doing this, it is by no means clear that the German people would vote in favour of accepting full liability for eurozone debt.
Shell faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars after accepting full liability for two massive oil spills that devastated a Nigerian community of 69,000 people and may take at least 20 years to clean up.
It is too early to say what NAM's full liability might be, but Pieter Huitema of De Haan thinks the market is damaged enough to cost NAM more than €5bn, in hundreds of thousands of payouts.
"The publication of these names sends a clear signal that cheating on tax is wrong and reassures people who pay their taxes — the vast majority — that there are consequences for those who refuse to tell Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs about their full liability," David Gauke, exchequer secretary to the Treasury, said in a statement.
Following the government's change of heart on mitigations, the BBC would, indeed, take on the full cost of the over-75s television licence concession, but at least it would be phased in from 2018, with the full liability being met by the BBC from 2018/19.
