Oil Industry and Windfall Profits.

Intro -- THE OIL INDUSTRY ANDWINDFALL PROFITS -- THE OIL INDUSTRY AND WINDFALL PROFITS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE CRUDE OIL WINDFALL PROFIT TAXOF THE 1980S: IMPLICATIONS FORCURRENT ENERGY POLICY* -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- The Oil Price Control Program -- Origins of the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax of 1980 -- Amendments to the Windfall Profit Tax -- Repeal of the Windfall Profit Tax -- STRUCTURE OF THE TAX -- RATIONALE FOR THE WINDFALL PROFIT TAX -- Oil Price Decontrol and Windfall Profits -- Distributional Equity ("Fairness") -- The Industry's Historically Low Effective Tax Rates -- Budget Deficits and the Need for Additional Revenue -- ECONOMIC EFFECTS -- Revenue Effects: Projections vs. Realizations -- Revenue Effects: Gross vs. Net Actual Revenue -- Effects on Domestic Oil Production and Oil Imports -- Economic Efficiency and Resource Allocation -- The Burden of Tax Compliance and Administration -- Reasons for Repeal of the Windfall Profit Tax -- WINDFALL PROFIT TAX LEGISLATION IN THE 109THCONGRESS -- Excise Tax Type of WPT -- Income Tax Type of WPT -- Economic and Policy Issues -- Alternative Policy Options -- TECHNICAL APPENDIX -- ENDNOTES -- OIL INDUSTRY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCEAND THE WINDFALL PROFITS TAX* -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- OIL INDUSTRY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE -- The Super-Major Integrated Oil Companies -- Use of Profits11 -- LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF WINDFALL PROFITS TAXPROPOSALS -- Windfall Profits Tax Legislation in the 109th Congress -- Windfall Profit Tax Legislation in the 110th Congress -- ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC AND POLICY ISSUES -- Defining and Measuring Windfall Gains -- The Non-neutral Economic Effects of the Excise Tax Type of WPT -- The Neutrality of the Corporate Income Tax Type of WPT -- Possible Revenue Effects -- ENDNOTES -- OIL AND GAS TAX SUBSIDIES:CURRENT STATUS AND ANALYSIS* -- SUMMARY.