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EJ 14: Spreading deduction backwards
or “This rule about spreading tax deductions to earlier years has been removed”
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“Rules for tax deductions when selling a petroleum mining asset”

When you sell a petroleum mining asset, part of the money you spent on developing it can be deducted from your taxes in the year you sell it. This part is the amount that relates to the asset and hasn’t already been deducted in earlier years.

If you get money from selling the asset over more than one year, the deduction is split across those years. The amount you can deduct each year depends on how much of the sale money you get that year.

You can find more information about petroleum development expenditure in section DT 5. There are also other rules about when you can deduct these costs in section EJ 12 and EJ 12B.

Sometimes, there might be different rules that apply instead of these ones. You can find those in section EJ 16.

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Part E Timing and quantifying rules
Spreading of specific expenditure

EJ 15Disposal of petroleum mining asset

  1. This section applies when a petroleum miner disposes of a petroleum mining asset.

  2. Part of a deduction under section DT 5 (Petroleum development expenditure) is allocated to the income year in which the miner disposes of the asset. The part is that to which both the following apply:

  3. it is attributable to the asset; and
    1. it has not been allocated under section EJ 12 or EJ 12B to the income year in which the miner disposes of the asset or to an earlier income year.

      1. If the petroleum miner’s income from disposing of the asset is derived in 2 or more income years,—

      2. the amount of the deduction is allocated among the income years in which the miner derives the income; and
        1. the amount allocated to each income year bears the same relation to the total amount of the deduction as the income that the miner derives in that income year bears to the total amount of income that the miner derives from the disposal.

          1. This section is overridden by section EJ 16.

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          Notes
          • Section EJ 15(2)(b): substituted (with effect on 1 April 2008), on , by section 130(1) of the Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and Remedial Matters) Act 2009 (2009 No 34).