... percent of qualified income beginning in 2010.18 In August of 2008, a group of ten senators, dubbed the “Gang of 10” proposed the exclusion of energy firms from Section 199 as part of the New ... allocation, and even a corporate profit tax would reduce the rate of return and reduce the flow of capital into the industry, ” in the long run.23 Rates of return to investment in oil and gas ... reports the expected total increase in annual employment over the first years of the investment phase. Table 4, Column A, gives a sense of the distribution of the 271,572 jobs created in the investment...