January 23, 2017
“A further problem facing oil states such as Oklahoma, Louisiana, North Dakota and West Virginia is deep cuts they made to severance and other taxes “when times were good,” Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Bloomberg BNA.”
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