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Second Session, 50th General Assembly

3 Charles III, 2025

BILL 108

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REVENUE ADMINISTRATION ACT NO. 8

Received and Read the First Time................................................................

Second Reading............................................................................................

Committee.....................................................................................................

Third Reading...............................................................................................

Royal Assent.................................................................................................

HONOURABLE SIOBHAN COADY

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Revenue Administration Act to

ˇ         clarify that the same exploration expenditures cannot be deducted when calculating net income for mining tax purposes and net revenue for mineral rights tax purposes; and

ˇ         exclude capital costs as exploration expenditures when calculating net revenue for mineral rights tax purposes.


A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REVENUE ADMINISTRATION ACT NO. 8

Analysis


        1.   S.82 Amdt.
Net income

        2.   S.85 Amdt.
Mineral rights tax


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2009 cR-15.01 as amended

        1. Section 82 of the Revenue Administration Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following:

       (2.01)  Notwithstanding subsection (2), an operator shall not deduct exploration expenditures referred to in subsection (2) where the exploration expenditures were deducted under paragraph 85(4)(b).

 

        2. Section 85 of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (4) the following:

         (4.1)  Notwithstanding paragraph (4)(b), the cost of capital assets shall not be included in exploration expenditures for the purposes of calculating net revenue under subsection (4).

         (4.2)  Notwithstanding subsection (4), exploration expenditures referred to in paragraph (4)(b) shall not be deducted for the purposes of determining net revenue under this section where the exploration expenditures were deducted under subsection 82(2).