You didn`t account for the current shortfall without spending down savings and dividends in the near term.  Income taxes are to provide stability and avoid "shortfalls" that we experience each time the price of a barrel of oil burps. No more of that Beth. We are done being pegged to a barrel of oil`s value in a rigged market Alaska isn`t allowed to participate in due to a cartel controlling access to our resources on the slope legacy leases. To break from that and the oil tax funnies we go through each year, we need that income tax.  It will steady the ship and cause us to pay more attention to where the money comes from,..and to where it goes.