Part 8Oil activities

Chapter 1Introduction

270Overview of Part

1

This Part is about the corporation tax treatment of oil activities.

2

Chapter 2 contains basic definitions used in this Part.

3

Chapter 3 treats oil-related activities as a separate trade.

4

Chapter 4 makes provision about the calculation of profits from oil activities.

5

Chapter 5 makes provision about ring fence expenditure supplement.

6

Chapter 6 makes provision about the supplementary charge in respect of ring fence trades.

7

Chapter 7 makes provision about the reduction of the supplementary charge for F1eligible oil fields.

8

For the meaning of—

a

“oil-related activities”, see section 274,

b

“ring fence trade”, see section 277, and

F2c

“eligible oil field”, see section 357.