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Texas producers also paid $436 million in oil production taxes and $182 million in natural gas production taxes in October, according to the Texas Comptroller’s Office.
In 1919, tax revenue from oil production surpassed $1 million ($17.6 million in today's terms) and in 1929 it reached $6 million ($106 million in today's terms). [34] [95] By 1940, the oil and gas industry accounted for approximately half of all taxes paid in the state. [55]
Texas is one of only 7 states not to have a state income tax. [22] [23] The state sales tax rate, 6.25%, is above the national medium, with localities adding up to 2% (8.25% total). [24] Texas does have a "back to school" sales tax holiday once a year (generally around the first weekend in August) on clothing and footwear under $100. [25]
“In 2023, nearly $100 billion of U.S. goods and services were purchased by the oil and natural gas sector in Texas coastal counties, 30% of which occurred within the region.”
Federal fuel taxes raised $36.4 billion in Fiscal Year 2016, with $26.1 billion raised from gasoline taxes and $10.3 billion raised from diesel and special motor fuel taxes. [16] The tax was last raised in 1993 and is not indexed to inflation. Total inflation from 1993 until 2017 was 68 percent or up to 77 percent, depending on the source. [17 ...
Jun. 7—AUSTIN — Statewide and county crude oil and natural gas production as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas for March 2024 came from 163,674 oil wells and 84,739 gas wells, a ...
Texas is the largest state producer of both crude oil and natural gas, producing 41% of national crude oil production and 25% of national natural gas in 2019. The thirty oil refineries operating in January 2019 comprised 31% of national refining capacity. [1]
By TXOGA's estimates for May 2024, Texas produced a record-high 5.7 mb/d of crude oil, plus 32.5 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) of natural gas marketed production and 3.5 mb/d of NGLs.