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Research on Severance Taxes in Utah:

Report of 2008.  (Written with the assistance of Michael Hogue.)

Computer program underlying the "Report of 2008."  (In Sweave, which allows one to embed executable R code into LaTeX documents; R code written and incorporated by Michael Hogue.)

Excel Spreadsheet Analysis of Rep. King's 2013 bill, based on the "Report of 2008."

Research by others

Peer-reviewed:  Mitch Kunce (University of Wyoming), Shelby Gerking (University of Central Florida), William Morgan (University of Wyoming), and Ryan Maddux (Stanford University), "State Taxation, Exploration, and Production in the U.S. Oil Industry," Journal of Regional Science, Volume 43, Issue 4, pages 749–770, November 2003.  Abstract freely available here; full text available (for example, from University of Utah computers) via EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier.  Quote:

"In the case of Wyoming, a doubling of the state severance tax is found to reduce production by less than 6% over a forty-year period, but will increase severance tax revenue substantially in present value terms, by over ninety percent.  Moreover, this general conclusion applies to the other major oil producing states that levy severance taxes." (p.764).

Non-peer reviewed:  Shelby Gerking (University of Central Florida), "Sensitivity of Production and Drilling in the Utah Oil and Gas Industry to Changes in the Severance Tax" and "Presentation to Utah Tax Review Commission: July 12, 2002," both described in these minutes of the Utah Tax Review Commission.