Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

Treatment of disposal value on disposal of oil licence with exploitation value U.K.

[F1 11 (1) This paragraph applies in any case where—

(a) the qualifying company disposes of an interest in an oil licence in a pre-commencement period,

(b) part of the value of the interest (the “deductible amount”) is attributable to qualifying E&A expenditure incurred by the company, and

(c) section 555 of the Capital Allowances Act (disposal of oil licence with exploitation value) has effect in relation to the disposal.

(2) For the purpose of allocating qualifying E&A expenditure to the pool for each pre-commencement period—

(a) find the total of the deductible amounts in the case of all such disposals made by the company (amount D), and

(b) taking later periods before earlier periods, reduce (but not below nil) amount E for any pre-commencement period by setting against it so much of amount D as does not fall to be set against amount E for a later pre-commencement period.

(3) In this paragraph “oil licence” has the same meaning as in section 555 of the Capital Allowances Act (see section 552 (1) of that Act).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 19B inserted (22.7.2004) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), s. 286(3), Sch. 38