The spending measure, they said, was an insurance policy against Republicans leaving without settling the tax issue.
Meanwhile, the government has not made any concrete proposals to settle the tax bill, the new chief executive, Steven M. Theede, said in an interview last Friday.
He told the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv last year that he had offered to pay $100 million in fines to settle the tax fraud case.
Yet the court also found that some rules were applied retrospectively and that Yukos was given an unreasonably short time to settle the tax claims that resulted in the speedy sale of its main production asset.
"We welcome the fact that the two governments obviously are close to an agreement on how to settle the tax dispute and will continue our early, proactive and cooperative steps addressing our situation," said Sabine Jaenecke, a spokeswoman for Julius Bär.
The counsel to the Suffolk County Legislature, Paul Sabatino, said last week that Governor Pataki, who backed the agreement, and authority officials had ignored the legal problems that were raised by settling the tax case using electric rates.
Yukos shares still soared on Thursday and Friday, suggesting that investors believe some sort of deal will be struck, possibly one in which the Russian government receives a stake in the company in exchange for settling the tax case.
Assuming that Romney comes through this period of his transition and Presidency with a deal that settles the tax and spending issues brought about by the fiscal cliff (and the related debt-ceiling vote that will likely happen weeks later), he could then return to his domestic agenda, which, he declared today, includes repeal of the A.C.A. as the first priority.
HMRC options for people in this situation are to repay the loans, settle the tax due or pay the loan charge in April which will apply to all loans made since 6 April 1999 if they are still outstanding.
