depletion allowance
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More important it is likely that the domestic depletion allowance will be abolished or substantially reduced.
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President Nixon has proposed that Congress repeal the U.S. depletion allowance for oil wells located abroad.
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One reason is that oil companies have less money to spend: Congress has eliminated most of their depletion allowance, and their profits have dropped.
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The prime tar get of the critics is the oil depletion allowance.
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For their part, oilmen maintain that they would not have risked North Slope drilling without the depletion allowance, and claim that the allowance is necessary to spur further development.
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