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Part 7Tax treatment of financing costs and income

CHAPTER 7“Financing expense amount” and “financing income amount”

318Companies engaged in oil extraction activities

(1)This section applies if, apart from this section, an amount (“the relevant amount”) is—

(a)a financing expense amount of a company because of meeting condition A or condition B in section 313, or

(b)a financing income amount of a company because of meeting condition A or condition B in section 314.

(2)The relevant amount is treated as not being a financing expense amount or a financing income amount of the company if conditions 1 and 2 are met.

(3)Condition 1 is that the company is treated, in the accounting period in which the amount is brought into account, as carrying on a ring fence trade (see section 277 of CTA 2010).

(4)Condition 2 is that the amount falls to be brought into account in calculating the profits of that trade for that accounting period.