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Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act

Key claim: S4111 (Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act) would impose a windfall-profits tax on large oil companies and has been referred to the Senate Committee on Finance.

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(S4111 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2026-03-17): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Why this matters

A windfall-profits tax reallocates tax burden toward large oil companies during high-margin periods, a recurring policy lever in U.S. taxation with historical precedent from the 1980s. Its status as referred to Senate Finance signals it is a policy marker rather than imminent law, but it sits alongside other proposals conditioning oil-industry tax treatment on price or profit levels.

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Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act
Stage: introduced · congress · 17-mar-2026

S4111 (Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act) would impose a windfall-profits tax on large oil companies and has been referred to the Senate Committee on Finance.

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External: congress:119-s-4111:introduced

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