creeping expropriation

creeping expropriation
USA
The gradual removal of property rights from a foreign investor through a series of government initiatives, including new legislation, increases in tax rates or royalty payments, the cumulative effect of which is to reduce the economic value of the project to the investor resulting in its abandonment.

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