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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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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Most of these deductions come from domestic oil production, but oilmen can also use the depletion allowance to reduce U.S. taxes on their foreign income.
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Oil companies grappled with new uncertainties about their future as the House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax bill that fairly soon is likely to wipe out the celebrated depletion allowance.
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