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Sch - 11 - THE ELEVENTH SCHEDULE - COMPUTATION OF PROFITS OF THE BUSINESS OF MINERAL OIL OR NATURAL GAS - Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2009Extract THE ELEVENTH SCHEDULE COMPUTATION OF PROFITS OF THE BUSINESS OF MINERAL OIL OR NATURAL GAS 1. The profits of the business of mineral oil or natural gas shall be the gross income from the business carried on by the assessee at any time during the financial year as reduced by the amount of business expenditure incurred by the assessee wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business during the year. 2. The gross income referred to in rule 1 shall be the aggregate of,- (a) the accruals or receipts derived by the assessee from,- (i) the business of mineral oil or natural gas; (ii) the leasing or transfer of whole of, or part of, or any interest in, any,- (A) mineral oil or natural gas right; and (B) asset used in the business of mineral oil or natural gas; and (iii) the demolition, destruction, discarding or transferring of any business captial asset (other than land, goodwill or financial instrument) in respect of which deduction has been allowed, or allowable, under sub-rule 3 in any financial year; and (b) the amounts referred to in sub-section (2) of section 31. 3. The amount of business expenditure referred to in rule 1 shall be the aggregate of the amount of,- (a) operating expenditure referred to in section 33, incurred by the assessee; (b) permitted finance charges referred to in section 34, incurred by the assessee; (c) expenditure on any license charges, rental fees or other charges, if actually paid; (d) expenditure on purchase, lease or rental of land or land rights; (e) capital expenditure incurred by the assessee; (f) expenditure on infructuous or abortive exploration of any area; (g) expenditure referred to in clauses (a) to (f) incurred before commencement of the business; (h) the amount of negative profit computed under this Schedule for any financial year immediately preceeding the relevant financial year. 4. The profits of the business of mineral oil or natural gas shall be treated as 'nil' if the profits determined under rule 1 is negative. 5. The profits computed under rule 1 shall be presumed to have been computed,- (a) after giving full effect to every loss, allowance or deduction referred to in sub-sections (1) to (3) of section 33, sub-section (1) of section 34 and sections 35 to section 38; (b) after giving full effect to any deduction allowable under sub-chapter-I of Chapter III in relation to the profits of the business of mineral oil or natural gas. 6. The written down value of any business asset used in the business of mineral oil or natural gas shall be computed as if the assessee has claimed and has been actually allowed the deduction in respect of depreciation under section 36, initial depreciation under section 37 and terminal allowance under section 38. 7. The amount of common costs (including depreciation) attributable to the business of mineral oil or natural gas shall be determined in the prescribed manner. 8. The successor in a business reorganisation of the business of mineral oil or natural gas shall be allowed a deduction in respect of the negative profit determined in the case of the predecessor for,- (a) the financial year immediately preceeding the financial year in which the business reorganisation has taken place if the reorganisation is on the first day of the financial year; and (b) the period beginning with the first day of the financial year and ending on the day immediately preceeding the date of business reorganisation, in any other case. 9. The deduction to the successor shall be allowed,- (a) in the financial year immediately following the year in which the business reorganisation has taken place if the reorganisation is on the last day of the financial year; and (b) in the same financial year if the business reorganisation has taken place at any other time during the financial year. 10. The provisions of this Schedule shall apply to the business referred to in rule 1, which fulfills all the following conditions, namely:- (a) it is not set up by splitting up, or the reconstruction, of a business already in existence; (b) it is not set up by the transfer to the specified business of machinery or plant previously used of any purpose. 11. For the purposes of this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) 'business of mineral oil or natural gas' means any business consisting of the prospecting for or extraction or production of mineral oil or natural gas; (b) 'mineral oil' means crude oil, being petroleum in its natural state before it is refined or otherwise treated but from which water and foreign substances have been extracted; (c) 'natural gas' means any subsoil combustible gaseous fossil fuel; (d) 'oil and gas right' means any reconnaissance permit, technical cooperation permit, exploration right, or production right assigned under the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Act, 1948, or any right or interest therein; (e) any machinery or plant which was used outside India by any person other than the assessee shall not be regarded as machinery or plant previously used for any purpose, if- (i) the machinery or plant was not, at any time prior to the date of the installation by the assessee, used in India; (ii) the machinery or plant is imported into India from any country outside India; and (iii) no deduction on account of depreciation in respect of the machinery or plant has been allowed or is allowable under the provisions of this Code, or the Income-tax Act, 1961, in computing the total income of any person for any period prior to the date of the installation of the machinery or plant by the assessee; (f) the condition specified in clasue (ii) of sub-rule 10 shall be deemed to have been complied with if the total value of the machinery or plant or any part thereof, previously used for any purpose and transferred to the business referred to in sub-rule 1, does not exceed twenty per cent of the total value of the machinery or plant used in the business; (g) the capital expenditure referred to in sub-rule 3 shall not include any expenditure incurred on the acquisition of any land, goodwill or financial instrument.
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