{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-trading-and-other-income-act-2005/section-225N",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-trading-and-other-income-act-2005/section-225N.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/5",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-trading-and-other-income-act-2005",
  "path": "section/225N",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "225N",
  "heading": "Expenditure on abandonment guarantees",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies if, as a result of section 3(1)(hh) of OTA 1975 (obtaining abandonment guarantee), expenditure incurred by a participator in an oil field is allowable (in whole or in part) for petroleum revenue tax purposes under section 3 of that Act.\n(1A) Subsection (2) also applies if expenditure incurred by a participator in an oil field would be so allowable as a result of section 3(1)(hh) of that Act but for the fact that the oil field is a non-taxable oil field within the meaning of Part 3 of FA 1993 (see section 185 of that Act).\n(2) So far as the expenditure mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A) is or would be so allowable, it is to be allowed as a deduction in calculating the participator's ring fence income.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In this Chapter—\n“abandonment guarantee” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of section 3 of OTA 1975 (see section 104 of FA 1991), and\n“the guarantor” and “the relevant participator” have the same meaning as in section 104 of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 16A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 1 para. 2 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 225N(1A) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 225N(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 1(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 225N(3)(4) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 225N(5) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 14(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 225N(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 14(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 225N(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 14(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 225N heading substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 31 para. 23 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 31 para. 14(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/5/section/225N",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:32.370392+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}