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BP netted $830 million from its North Slope operations in 2017 but the company’s Alaska leaders contend the net income figure shrinks to $118 million when all of the work it does in the state is factored in against a backdrop of $543 million in taxes and royalties paid to the State of Alaska.
Most of the $830 million in upstream Alaska profits reported March 29 — on the back of $3.2 billion in operating revenue — is due to a roughly $500 million federal corporate tax accounting benefit stemming from the tax reform Congress passed in December.
A major component of the tax overhaul was a cut of the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, which many companies have been able to apply to deferred tax obligations.