WV Property Taxes on Shale Jump 40% from 2018 to 2019

West Virginia shale producers pay a 5% severance tax on all natural gas produced--you knew that, right? And in 2018 WV's oil and gas producers (mostly shale) paid $138 million in severance taxes (see WV O&G Pays $138M in Severance Tax in ’18, Up 4.3% from ’17). But did you know that producers (i.e. drillers) also pay property taxes, on top of severance taxes? That's right! And in 2019 WV's drillers will pay an extra $123 million in property tax on top of the severance tax they pay this year--up 40% from last year.

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