Taxing Energy: Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy

by Stephen Decanio, Robert Deacon, H.E. Frech III, et al.

Book Overview

Severance taxes on the extraction of oil, gas, and other natural resources have been very popular with politicians because they seem invisible in being spread among a large, diffuse taxpayer base. But do such taxes have serious negative consequences overlooked by legislators? Severance taxes-taxes levied upon the production of oil and natural gas-have long been popular with state governments. Such taxes are thought to have minimal impact upon the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945999690
• ISBN13: 9780945999690
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Independent Institute
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"