As national budget discussions escalate, we can expect to be given more insight into Congress’ framework for business tax reform. The American oil and natural gas industry commonly becomes a target in these discussions. However, rarely is any focus given to the positive benefits of existing tax laws. Three specific areas[…]
By Amos Snead Efforts are underway to reform the U.S. tax code, and the oil and natural gas industry is facing the unknown in many different ways. There may be changes to how this critical industry is taxed at state and federal levels, even as it stands on the threshold of substantial growth. As America […]
The energy industry is adding to the U.S. economic recovery with the International Energy Agency predicting that we will be the largest producer of crude oil by 2020. The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.1 percent and 3.9 percent in South Dakota due to the expanding oil industry. Yet the Obama administration continues to […]
Repealing the federal tax provision allowing oil and gas producers to deduct certain intangible drilling costs (IDCs) effective Jan. 1, 2014, would cost 190,000 US jobs in the first year and would cut drilling investments in the US by $407 billion over 10 years, a new study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute found. “The […]
From 2008 to 2010, the United States was in a recession, the effects of which are still being felt. While Oklahoma’s state budget was squeezed, we weren’t forced into the drastic measures of some states — raising taxes, laying off workers and being forced to borrow money from the federal government. Oklahoma took a hit, […]
The budget battles in Iowa and Washington, D.C., have again ignited the debate over national priorities. In a world of infinite wants and finite resources, our elected officials are forced to choose the best way to raise and allocate resources. Putting aside the superficial partisan squabbling, the process does illuminate what our elected officials truly […]
The United States will supplant Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s largest energy producer by 2017, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This tectonic shift in the energy power structure could have sweeping geopolitical and economic ramifications. While you may think that the U.S. oil boom makes all energy stocks attractive, our income […]
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