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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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Oilmen would finally lose their long-cherished depletion allowance.

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The prime tar get of the critics is the oil 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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President Nixon has proposed that Congress repeal the U.S. depletion allowance for oil wells located abroad.

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