How to Use severance tax in a Sentence

severance tax

noun
  • Their other major battle has been fighting an increase in a coal severance tax.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • For decades, private timber owners in Oregon paid a severance tax.
    — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The state funnels some of the severance tax revenue to communities to address the impacts of oil and gas development.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Proponents of the severance tax told lawmakers that the industry’s strong position means there’s no better time to restore the tax.
    — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The Legislature passed an oil severance tax in 2009, but then-Gov.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The changes included lowering property taxes and phasing out the state’s severance tax, which was based on the value of timber after it was logged.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
  • Holvey also previously attempted to introduce a new severance tax that would fund the state’s wildfire response.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Barring state intervention, the authors added, the tribes would be able to enact a severance tax on any natural resources removed from the reservation.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The amount of oil and gas severance tax the state expects to collect this year was downgraded by nearly 11 percent; next year’s collections were revised down 20 percent.
    — Jonathan Shorman and Hunter Woodall, kansascity, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Currently, the royalty legislation is attached to a House proposal to enact a severance tax on natural gas, which has also been stalled for years.
    — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • 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.
    — The Denver Post, 18 Aug. 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.
    — Marc Levy, The Seattle Times, 1 Oct. 2018
  • In addition to eliminating the severance tax, Oregon also assesses property taxes at a rate below market value.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
  • The state’s education budget, 65 percent of which comes from federal mineral royalties and severance taxes, has been especially hard hit.
    — Adam Federman, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • Golden also expects lawmakers will more seriously debate reintroducing the state’s severance tax for timber companies.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
  • 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.
    — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • In early 2005, Blankenship opposed legislation proposed by Manchin that would have increased the coal severance tax and funded workers’ compensation benefit plans.
    — Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
  • 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.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
  • With the state emerging from a significant recession, the position would test the knowledge Duncan had attained over the past decade and bring new challenges as well — such as implementing a severance tax on oil and gas production enacted in 1983.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • One potential revenue solution for counties, proposed in a 2021 bill, is to reinstitute the state severance tax on harvest values that was collected for decades before the timber industry convinced the Legislature to abandon it three decades ago.
    — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022

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