I-3 - Taxation Act

Section 372.2 Disposition versions

2006-03-01

372.2. In this chapter, the specified foreign exploration and development expense of a taxpayer in relation to a country other than Canada means the following expenses that are foreign exploration and development expenses of the taxpayer:

(a)  any exploration or drilling expense, including any general geological or geophysical expense, incurred by the taxpayer on or in respect of exploring or drilling for petroleum or natural gas in that country;

(b)  any expense incurred by the taxpayer after 21 December 2000, otherwise than pursuant to an agreement in writing entered into before 22 December 2000, for the purpose of determining the existence, location, extent or quality of a mineral resource in that country, including any expense incurred in the course of prospecting, carrying out geological, geophysical or geochemical surveys, drilling, trenching, digging test pits or preliminary samplings;

(c)  any prospecting, exploration or development expense incurred by the taxpayer before 22 December 2000, or after 21 December 2000 pursuant to an agreement in writing entered into before 22 December 2000, in searching for minerals in that country;

(d)  the cost to the taxpayer of any of the taxpayer’s foreign resource properties in relation to that country;

(e)  any annual payment made by the taxpayer in a taxation year of the taxpayer for the preservation of a foreign resource property in relation to that country;

(f)  an amount deemed by section 181 or 182 to be a foreign exploration and development expense incurred by the taxpayer, to the extent that it can reasonably be considered to relate to an amount that, without reference to this paragraph and paragraph g, would be a specified foreign exploration and development expense in relation to that country; and

(g)  subject to section 418.37, the taxpayer’s share of the specified foreign exploration and development expenses of a partnership incurred in a fiscal period of the partnership in relation to that country, where the taxpayer was a member of the partnership at the end of that fiscal period.

2004, c. 8, s. 66.