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S 258 112th Congress Senate

Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate oil and gas company preferences.

Introduced: February 2, 2011 See on congress.gov
Taxation Earth sciencesEnergy pricesGulf of MexicoIncome tax credits
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Income tax deductionsMarine and coastal resources, fisheriesOil and gasSales and excise taxesTaxation of foreign income
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 Latest action February 2, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny to taxpayers with gross revenues in excess of $100 million in a taxable year (applicable large taxpayers): (1) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs, (2) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses, (3) the exemption from restrictions on the deductibility of passive losses, (4) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells, and (5) the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof.

Requires applicable large taxpayers to amortize their geological and geophysical expenditures over a seven-year period.

Imposes on producers of taxable crude oil or natural gas a 13% excise tax on the removal price of such oil and natural gas produced from lands on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Allows a nonrefundable credit against such tax for royalties paid under federal law with respect to the production of such crude oil and natural gas.

Denies a foreign tax credit to any large integrated oil company that is subject to a levy of a foreign country or possession of the United States and receives an economic benefit from such country or possession (dual capacity taxpayer) if such country or possession does not impose a generally applicable income tax.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 258: Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-258/
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"S. 258: Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-258/.
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