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Domestic Oil and Gas Production Tax Incentive Act

Introduced: February 16, 1995 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 16, 1995
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Feb 16, 1995
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Production Credit

Title II: Modifications To Percentage Depletion

Title III: Other Provisions

Domestic Oil and Gas Production Tax Incentive Act - Title I: Production Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for producing crude oil and natural gas from new wells and marginal wells.

Provides: (1) a formula for reducing such credit in years in which oil and gas prices increase; and (2) an inflation adjustment for such formula. Allows such credit against the regular and minimum tax.

Title II: Modifications to Percentage Depletion - Repeals the net income limitation on percentage depletion for oil and gas properties.

Makes all marginal production of domestic crude oil or domestic natural gas eligible for percentage depletion.

Revises the percentage depletion rate for such marginal production.

Title III: Other Provisions - Allows the election to treat geological and geophysical expenses incurred in connection with the exploration for, or development of, domestic oil or gas as expenses which are not chargeable to capital account.

Makes the enhanced oil recovery credit applicable to secondary recovery methods. Allows such credit against the minimum tax.

Allows the election of an optional five-year writeoff of intangible drilling costs for minimum tax purposes.

What's happening now February 16, 1995

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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