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H.R. 2184: End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 2021

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H.R. 2184: End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-03-26 · Taxation · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-03-26 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 2021

Plain summary

End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 2021 This bill limits or repeals certain fossil fuel oil and gas subsidies for oil companies. Specifically, it increases to seven years the amortization period for geological and geophysical expenditures; repeals the tax credits for producing oil and gas from marginal wells and for enhanced oil recovery; repeals the tax deduction for the intangible drilling and development costs of oil and gas wells; repeals percentage depletion; repeals the tax deduction for tertiary injectant expenses; repeals the passive loss exception for working interests in oil and gas property; denies the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities for oil and gas activities; prohibits the use of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting method by major integrated oil companies; limits the foreign tax credit for dual capacity taxpayers (i.e., taxpayers who are subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and receive specific economic benefits from such country or possession); and expands the definition of crude oil for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum and petroleum products to include any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture (tar sands), and any oil derived from kerogen-bearing sources (oil shale).

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Official text

End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · 45 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Sean Casten (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Mark Takano (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Grace Meng (D-NY), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Mike Levin (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2184 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117