Part 2Trading income
F3Chapter 16AOil activities
Abandonment guarantees
225NF4Expenditure on abandonment guarantees
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Subsection (2) applies if, as a result of section 3(1)(hh) of OTA 1975 (obtaining abandonment guarantee), expenditure incurred by a participator in an oil field is allowable (in whole or in part) for petroleum revenue tax purposes under section 3 of that Act.
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Subsection (2) also applies if expenditure incurred by a participator in an oil field would be so allowable as a result of section 3(1)(hh) of that Act but for the fact that the oil field is a non-taxable oil field within the meaning of Part 3 of FA 1993 (see section 185 of that Act).
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So far as F1the expenditure mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A) is or would be so allowable, it is to be allowed as a deduction in calculating the participator's ring fence income.
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Pt. 2 Ch. 16A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 1 para. 2 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)