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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Cash Flow Statement [Abstract] |
Disclosure of interest and income taxes paid |
|  | For the year ended December 31,
US$ MILLIONS |  | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Interest paid |  | $ | 985 |  |  | $ | 829 |  |  | $ | 507 |
Income taxes paid |  | $ | 172 |  |  | $ | 179 |  |  | $ | 427 |
Disclosure of changes in non-cash working capital | Details of “Changes in non-cash working capital, net” on the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows are as follows:
|  | For the year ended December 31,
US$ MILLIONS |  | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Accounts receivable |  | $ | 284 |  |  | $ | 42 |  |  | $ | 176 |
Prepayments |  | (415) |  |  | (120) |  |  | 5 |
Accounts payable and other |  | (89) |  |  | 146 |  |  | (305) |
Changes in non-cash working capital, net |  | $ | (220) |  |  | $ | 68 |  |  | $ | (124) |

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