SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 19CPetroleum extraction activities: ring fence expenditure supplement

Part 1Introductory

About this Schedule

1

1

This Schedule entitles a company carrying on a ring fence trade, on making a claim in respect of an accounting period beginning on or after 1st January 2006, to a supplement (initially of 6%, but variable by Treasury order) in respect of—

a

qualifying pre-commencement expenditure incurred before the trade is set up and commenced,

b

losses incurred in the trade, and

c

some or all of the supplement allowed in respect of earlier periods.

2

Part 2 makes provision about the application and interpretation of this Schedule.

3

Part 3 makes provision about supplement in relation to expenditure incurred by the company—

a

with a view to carrying on a ring fence trade, but

b

in an accounting period before the company sets up and commences that trade.

4

Part 4 makes provision about supplement in relation to losses incurred in carrying on the ring fence trade.

5

There is a limit on the number of accounting periods (6) in respect of which a company may claim supplement.

6

In determining the amount of supplement allowable, reductions fall to be made in respect of—

a

disposal receipts in respect of any asset representing qualifying pre-commencement expenditure,

b

ring fence losses that could be set off under section 393A against ring fence profits of earlier periods,

c

ring fence losses incurred in earlier periods that fall to be set off under section 393 against profits of succeeding periods,

d

unrelieved group ring fence profits.