- percentage depletion
- A specified percentage of a taxpayer's gross income from oil and gas wells, other natural deposits, or timberlands. W. D. Haden Co. v Commissioner (CA5) 321 F2d 169.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
percentage depletion
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depletion — An emptying, exhausting or wasting of assets. A reduction during taxable year of oil, gas or other mineral deposits or reserves (i.e., wasting assets) as a result of production. The process by which the cost or other basis of a natural resource… … Black's law dictionary
depletion — An emptying, exhausting or wasting of assets. A reduction during taxable year of oil, gas or other mineral deposits or reserves (i.e., wasting assets) as a result of production. The process by which the cost or other basis of a natural resource… … Black's law dictionary
Cost Depletion — One of two accounting methods used to allocate the costs of extracting natural resources, such as timber, minerals and oil, and to take those costs as a tax deduction. Cost depletion looks at the total amount of the resource to be extracted, how… … Investment dictionary
cost — Expense; price. The sum or equivalent expended, paid or charged for something. See also actual cost costs net cost rate costing cost bond … Black's law dictionary
