Income Tax (Petroleum) Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Returns
19. Returns
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Every company which is or has been engaged in petroleum operations shall, when required to do so by any notice in writing given in pursuance of this Act, within the time limited by such notice, which in no case shall be less than 6 months after the commencement of a year of assessment, prepare and deliver to the Collector in such form and manner as the Collector may determine a true and correct return, signed by a duly authorised officer of the company, containing the following particulars in respect of such basis period as may be specified in such notice in the amount of its chargeable profits arising from such operations.
company
“company” means a company incorporated or registered in Brunei Darussalam under the Companies Act or under any law in force elsewhere, but does not include the company acting as a State Party in a petroleum mining Agreement in accordance with the Petroleum Mining Act;
Terms defined in s 2
chargeable profits
Defined · s 2“chargeable profits” means profits ascertained in accordance with the provisions of section 8 or 10A;
Collector
Defined · s 2“Collector” means the Collector of Income Tax appointed under section 3 and includes for all purposes of this Act, except the powers conferred on the Collector by sections 38, 39 and 42, a Deputy Collector so appointed;
company
Defined · s 2“company” means a company incorporated or registered in Brunei Darussalam under the Companies Act or under any law in force elsewhere, but does not include the company acting as a State Party in a petroleum mining Agreement in accordance with the Petroleum Mining Act;
petroleum operations
Defined · s 2“petroleum operations” means searching for and winning or obtaining of petroleum in Brunei Darussalam by or on behalf of a company for its own account by any method or means in the course of a business carried on by a company engaged in such operations, and all operations incidental thereto, and the sale or disposal by such company or any other company carrying on business through a permanent establishment in Brunei Darussalam of petroleum so won or obtained, and includes the transportation within Brunei Darussalam by such companies of petroleum so won or obtained to any point of sale or delivery or export and any field process necessary to reduce petroleum so won or obtained to a marketable condition, but does not include — (a) any transportation of petroleum outside Brunei Darussalam; (b) any process of refining at a refinery; or (c) any dealings with products so refined;
year of assessment
Defined · s 2“year of assessment” means the period of 12 months commencing on the 1st day of January 1963, and each subsequent period of 12 months.
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