Part 8Oil activities
Chapter 4Calculation of profits
Oil valuation
281Valuation where market value taken into account under section 2 of OTA 1975
1
This section applies if a person disposes of oil in circumstances such that the market value of the oil—
a
falls to be taken into account under section 2 of OTA 1975, otherwise than by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to that Act, in calculating for petroleum revenue tax purposes the assessable profit or allowable loss accruing to that person in a chargeable period from an oil field, or
b
would so fall but for section 10 of that Act.
2
For the purposes of the charge to corporation tax on income, the disposal of the oil, and its acquisition by the person to whom it was disposed of, are to be treated as having been for a consideration equal to the market value of the oil—
a
as so taken into account under section 2 of that Act, or
b
as would have been so taken into account under that section but for section 10 of that Act.