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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Since the price of crude oil on which the size of the depletion allowance is based has doubled over the past year, the write-offs will be even greater in 1973.
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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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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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