depletion allowance

American  

noun

1. a tax reduction allowed on income from exhaustible resources, as oil or timber.

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depletion allowance Cultural  

1. A deduction from taxable income based on the eventual exhaustion or waste of a natural asset, such as an oil field.

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Example Sentences

Also missing are repeals of a provision known as a “percentage depletion allowance,” that allows independent oil and gas producers and royalty holders to deduct 15 percent of gross revenue, year after year; that enables smaller operators to keep even uneconomical, marginal wells up and running.

From New York Times

“For this particular venture, both stars earned $5,000,000 each on their initial $40,000 investment. When the depletion allowance was taken into account, $1,375,000 of the $5,000,000 was tax-free. Other Hollywood stars who experienced similar successes in the oil business included Jimmy Stewart, Gene Autry, Don Ameche, and Frank Sinatra, who fittingly titled his first oil well ‘Crooner No. 1.’

From Los Angeles Times

The oil depletion allowance was created by Congress in 1926.

From Los Angeles Times

The first was the oil depletion allowance.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the first Hollywood stars to understand the tax benefits of the oil depletion allowance were Crosby and Hope.

From Los Angeles Times