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Court of Appeal (England and Wales) clarifies ‘incidental’ under CTA 2010 oil contractor regime: accommodation on tender vessel not incidental; hire cap applies (HMRC v Dolphin Drilling Ltd)

Published on: 17 January 2024

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HMRC v Dolphin Drilling Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 1

The taxpayer arranged a lease of the vessel Borgsten from a related entity to fulfil a contract with Total, the operator of the Dunbar oil installation. Under that agreement, the Borgsten was deployed to support operations on the Dunbar platform while the taxpayer’s own crew worked aboard the vessel alongside Total’s personnel...

  • Provision of water, compressed air and various chemicals to the platform
  • Warehousing, heliport facilities and storage services
  • On-board accommodation for approximately 50 members of Total’s workforce engaged on Dunbar

HMRC took the stance that the hire cap in section 356N of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 (CTA 2010) was engaged. The taxpayer, however, maintained that the carve-out in CTA 2010, s 356LA(3) applied, on the basis that it was reasonable to assume the Borgsten’s accommodation function for Total’s staff was ‘unlikely to be more than incidental to another...

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