January 06, 2023
A Texas federal court dismissed Vitol's bid for an $8.8 million tax refund, citing a Fifth Circuit decision that found it wasn't entitled to alternative fuel mixture tax credits for its butane blends because butane doesn't count as a liquefied petroleum gas.
April 09, 2020
A Texas federal court has paused energy company Vitol's $8.8 million tax refund bid for its butane use, granting the company's disputed request for an appeal before the official conclusion of the case.
March 24, 2020
A Texas federal court denied energy company Vitol an $8.8 million refund for its use of butane Tuesday, adopting a magistrate judge's recommendations that found its fuel mixtures don't qualify for an alternative fuel mixture tax credit.
March 11, 2020
A magistrate judge wrongly set aside the plain meaning of an alternative fuel tax credit statute in recommending that a Texas federal court deny Vitol an $8.8 million tax refund for butane use, the energy company has told the court.
February 26, 2020
Butane mixtures produced by Vitol should not qualify for the alternative fuel mixture tax credit, a Texas federal magistrate judge has said in recommending that the energy company be denied a partial win in its $8.8 million tax refund suit.
January 27, 2020
The energy company Vitol is not eligible for an $8.8 million refund for alternative fuel mixture tax credits because the fuel it produces contains butane, which doesn't qualify for the credit, the U.S. government told a Texas federal court.
June 29, 2019
Butane is a liquefied petroleum gas that qualifies for a federal excise tax credit for alternative fuel mixtures, Vitol has told a Texas federal court in asking to be granted a $8.8 million tax refund.
July 05, 2018
An energy company asked a Texas federal court to compel the Internal Revenue Service to return nearly $9 million, plus interest, to the company because it qualified for the federal alternative fuel tax credit.