Oil: A big investment with big tax breaks
When it comes to tax-advantaged investments for wealthy or sophisticated investors, one commodity continues to stand alone above all others: oil. With the U.S. government's backing, domestic energy production has created a litany of tax incentives for both investors and small producers, and oil is no exception.
Several major tax benefits are available for oil and gas investors that are found nowhere else in the tax code. Below, we'll cover the benefits of tax- advantaged oil investments and how you can use them to fire up your portfolio. 
Accredited investor
The federal securities laws define the term accredited investor in Rule 501 of Regulation D as:• a bank, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, or small business investment company;• an employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, if a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess of $5 million;• a charitable organization, corporation, or partnership with assets exceeding $5 million;• a director, executive officer, or general partner of the company selling the securities;• a business in which all the equity owners are accredited investors;• a natural person who has individual net worth, or joint net worth with the person’s spouse, that exceeds $1 million at the time of the purchase, excluding the value of the primary residence of such person;• a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year; or• a trust with assets in excess of $5 million, not formed to acquire the securities offered, whose purchases a sophisticated person makes.
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