Part IV Miscellaneous and General

Petroleum revenue tax

139X1Assets generating tariff receipts: extension of allowable expenditure.

1

In Part I of Schedule 1 to the M1Oil Taxation Act 1983 (extensions of allowable expenditure for assets generating receipts) paragraph 3 (expenditure on enhancing the value of assets no longer in use for the principal field) shall be amended as follows—

a

in sub-paragraph (1)(a) after the words “enhancing the value of” there shall be inserted “ or otherwise in connection with ”;

b

in sub-paragraph (1)(d) for the words “the expenditure” there shall be substituted “ either the use of the asset ” and after the words “tariff receipts or” there shall be inserted “ the expenditure ”.

2

This section shall have effect with respect to expenditure incurred on or after 15th March 1988.