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Intangible Drilling Costs
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Intangible Drilling Costs
Expenses a company has when it drills for oil or natural gas. Intangible drilling costs are sometimes convenient for a company's tax purposes because it can deduct intangible drilling costs in one year when the company perhaps found little or no oil from profits made in a different year when the company does find oil.

intangible drilling costs
Expenses incurred while exploring for gas, geothermal, or oil reserves. These items may be expensed in the year incurred, or they may be capitalized and deducted throughout a period of years. Intangible drilling costs are an effective means of reducing taxes because they can be used to offset income in a single year even though the costs were incurred in order to produce or develop a capital asset (energy reserves) that will in turn generate income for many years. Costs for fuel, preparation of a site, and wages are examples of intangible drilling costs.


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It's not easy to get the capital needed to go out and drill the wells so there are things like percentage depletion and intangible drilling costs, which the Obama Administration has sought to end during the last two years," said Martin Frost, a former Democratic congressman from Texas who works as a lobbyist for Polsinelli Shughart.
If the Obama administration does away with intangible drilling costs, oil and gas producers will no longer be incentivized to reinvest in new drilling projects, and new exploration will decline.
Also, 63 percent believe eliminating intangible drilling costs (IDC) will result in companies drilling outside the U.
 
 
 
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