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Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

Section 16: Oil extraction and related activities

103.This section provides that certain oil-related activities are treated as a single, separate trade. It is based on section 492(1) of ICTA.

104.Section 492 is in Chapter 5 of Part 12 of ICTA. Most of that Chapter is concerned with corporation tax and is not rewritten in this Act. The section deals with oil (and gas) exploration and extraction activities in the United Kingdom and in the United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf.

105.The main consequence of treating these oil-related activities as a separate trade is that losses from other trading activities cannot be set against oil profits. That consequence is set out in section 492(2) of ICTA.

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