depletion allowance
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One reason is the depletion allowance, which basically permits oil companies to deduct from their tax bills 22% of the value of the oil that their wells produce.
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Oilmen would finally lose their long-cherished depletion allowance.
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While industry lobbyists still protested the impending death of the depletion allowance, some individual oil executives were pleased to fend off a much harder blow.
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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 companies, however, generate such huge tax write-offs from other sources�mainly the foreign-tax credit �that they rarely need to use the foreign depletion allowance.
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