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Definition of severance tax
: a tax levied by a state on the extractor of oil, gas, or minerals intended for consumption in other states — compare royalty sense 5a
Examples of severance tax in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web John Aguilar and Judith Kohler take a look at how other states have used their severance taxes to create trust funds that today have billions of dollars in them, and why Colorado hasn’t done the same.
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The Denver Post, "Post Premium: Our best stories for the week of Aug. 12-18," 18 Aug. 2019 Wolf is still calling for a severance tax on natural gas.
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John Baer, Philly.com, "Welcome to Pennsylvania's budget season: A show void of value | John Baer," 3 June 2018 Coal severance taxes, one source of revenue, fell by more than 25% over the past decade to $194 million last year, according to the state Department of Revenue.
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Kris Maher, WSJ, "Wyoming Makes a Case for Coal," 15 Feb. 2020 The state funnels some of the severance tax revenue to communities to address the impacts of oil and gas development.
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Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, "The small Colorado town of Walden, in oil and gas country, has a new solar array. And it floats.," 1 Sep. 2019 But Ohio’s Reclamation Forfeiture Fund, funded through a severance tax on coal, only has about $22 million in it – meaning the remaining money would have to come from the state’s general revenue fund.
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Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, "Murray Energy bankruptcy filing stokes fears about Ohio’s coal mine cleanup fund," 4 Nov. 2019 Trebek also touched on the death penalty, imposing a severance tax on natural gas drilling and gerrymandering congressional districts, while the men jousted over who can better deal with the state’s huge pension debt.
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Marc Levy, The Seattle Times, "Governor, GOP challenger face off at Trebek-hosted forum," 1 Oct. 2018 Oil-producing states, which rely on severance taxes, were hurt by the sharp fall in oil prices in 2015 and 2016.
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David Harrison, WSJ, "Many States Are Likely Unprepared for Next Downturn," 8 July 2018 The Pennsylvania legislature created the fee as an alternative to a severance tax assessed on production volume, which is commonly used in other oil and gas producing states.
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Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, "Pa. discloses how it will divvy up $210M in shale gas fees," 21 June 2018
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The first known use of severance tax was in 1928
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